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When is including information about a person's identity not an example of bias?
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Wiki User
April 13, 2017 12:13PM
Including a person's identity is never a form of bias. It may cause bias because the person may not want the answers to be traced back and so may give dishonest or misleading answers but that is a different matter.
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People typically ask Person A about the age of Person B for one
of three reasons:
Genuine Interest as friends or co-workers; knowing
someone's age can give you a sense of how educated they are (for
children), whether they have children or not, and whether they are
in the acceptable age range to be a friend or romantic
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Government/Insurance Form Filing often requires one
person to fill out a form with key life information on multiple
persons, so there may be a request for one person to provide
personal details (including age) of multiple people. This is
usually done to calculate risk and/or concretize identity.
Identity Theft requires concrete personal information in
order to create a replica identity. As a result, identity thieves
will typically ask a person to report on his personal information
or that of someone else who is more able to recognize their
approach.