Transcript text: Misinterpretation: interpreting a source incorrectly
Selective bias: gathering an unrepresentative body of sources
Confirmation bias: valuing only those sources that conform to preconceived notions about a topic
Misattribution: incorrectly crediting a source with evidence that it does not actually provide
Unreproducible or uncited research: intentionally or unintentionally failing to provide references to sources used
Professional historians make their own arguments as well as critique others'. Which of the errors above have the following authors committed, according to the critiques of their work below?
Select the error that best matches the description provided.
The prose is well written. But the author, has not properly grasped the concept of 'liberty' that Rousseau is putting forward, so the argument is inconsequential.
Although passionately argued, this article of 25 pages contains only three footnotes, leaving readers to wonder whether the evidence the author claims supports his argument even exists at all.
For its evidence, the book relies exclusively on just four middle-class newspaper opinion pieces.