Which of the following situations is most likely to produce a biased source?

A. The source's creator fails to organize his study of an event by period or region.

B. The source's creator could personally benefit from convincing people to accept his argument.

C. The source's creator relies on both oral and written sources to support her argument.

D. The source's creator cities only secondary sources to support her argument.

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Amya Peck

3 September, 05:05

Which of the following situations is most likely to produce a biased source?

A. The source's creator fails to organize his study of an event by period or region.

B. The source's creator could personally benefit from convincing people to accept his argument.

C. The source's creator relies on both oral and written sources to support her argument.

D. The source's creator cities only secondary sources to support her argument.

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Mina Beltran · Answer 1

B. The source's creator could personally benefit from convincing people to accept his argument.

This is because if the person benefits from people accepting his argument, they are more likely to become very biased and do things such as covering sources that side against them, taking sources out of context, or simply lying.

Alexander Robbins · Answer 2

B. The source's creator could personally benefit from convincing people to accept his argument.