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Wikipedia's Not as Biased as You Might Think, Say Harvard Researchers (qz.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report on Quartz:In a sea of biased content, Wikipedia is one of the few online outlets that strives for neutrality. After 15 years in operation, it's starting to see results. Researchers at Harvard Business School evaluated almost 4,000 articles in Wikipedia's online database against the same entries in Encyclopedia Brittanica to compare their biases. They focused on English-language articles about US politics, especially controversial topics, that appeared in both outlets in 2012. In its initial years, Wikipedia's crowdsourced articles were tinted very blue, slanting more toward Democratic views and displayed greater bias than Britannica. However, with more revisions and more moderators volunteering on the platform, the bias wore away. In fact, the upper quartile of the Wikipedia's sample had enough revisions that there was no longer any difference in slant and bias from its offline counterpart. More surprisingly, the authors found that the 2.8 million registered volunteer editors who were reviewing the articles also became less biased over time.
Oh wait, it's not there, because Wikipedia's Social Justice Warrior contingent insists it must be "Chelsea."
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So Wikipedia is less biased than expected, because they toned it down and are now only as liberal as a bunch of British boffins from ivory towers?
Yes, like their main news channel being self-described as "fair and balanced"... oh, wait!
Or by having someone with 100% conservative credentials (Megan Kelly) suddenly being accused of being a closet liberal (or RINO) the moment they say something different than Cheeto Jesus. Yeah, no conservative bias there.
Ah, yes. The assassination attempt of Gabby Gifford, originating from Sarah Palin's crosshairs attack ad and recently mirrored by that orange bag of hate and bile in a 'winkwink nudgenudge" call for gun owners to kill Clinton, was just an uninterested dismissal of the congresswoman.
Cheeto Jesus is a very apt name. He's completely manufactured, 95% air with no real substance, has to be dressed up tremendously to look appealing, is only popular because of a massive marketing effort, and is bad for your health.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
Says the anonymous russian propagandist desperate to get Vlad's pet jaundiced chihuahua into the white house so he doesn't get disappeared in the next week.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
Sometimes Wikipedia can be incredibly resilient to bias, e.g. the GamerGate article. It's rather hostile to helpful edits though, perhaps because there is so much rule-lawyering to keep the bias down.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Everyone knows reality has has built-in liberal bias that in the name of balances must be countered by en equal amount of conservative bullshit.
sudo ergo sum