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Talk:Examples of Bias in Wikipedia (view source)
Revision as of 03:47, March 10, 2007
, 03:47, March 10, 2007→Wikipedia six times more liberal than public?
::::::It might be that the majority of other encyclopedias are conservative biased. I'm not saying this is true, it's just a possibility. Why does the article have a long history of warnings? Because they don't want the readers to be mislead into believing the information, as it is not verified. What exactly is wrong with that? Removing the information entirely would be denying its notability and existance, which is also unencyclopedic. Do you have any other articles to cite? [[User:GofG|GofG]] 22:34, 9 March 2007 (EST)
::::::It might be that the majority of other encyclopedias are conservative biased. I'm not saying this is true, it's just a possibility. Why does the article have a long history of warnings? Because they don't want the readers to be mislead into believing the information, as it is not verified. What exactly is wrong with that? Removing the information entirely would be denying its notability and existance, which is also unencyclopedic. Do you have any other articles to cite? [[User:GofG|GofG]] 22:34, 9 March 2007 (EST)
::::::::I was being generous in what I wrote. Wikipedia has had the same warning for ages. Every time I look at the article it has had that warning. Why doesn't someone clean up the mess? I believe it is because they are reticent to delete unsourced liberal material. 22:47, 9 March 2007 (EST)conservative
:::: According to your data, then, M1 = 0.4 or 0.41. Plugging into my equation, L2/L1 = 2.25*(1-M2)/(1-0.41) = 3.81356 * (1-M2). M2, the fraction of Wikipediaers who are moderates, can (by definition) only range from 0 to 1. Therefore, the '''very maximum''' is 3.81 (assuming that no Wikipediaers are moderates, which is unlikely to be true). Six is incorrect.--[[User:Manchot|Manchot]] 22:44, 9 March 2007 (EST)
:::: According to your data, then, M1 = 0.4 or 0.41. Plugging into my equation, L2/L1 = 2.25*(1-M2)/(1-0.41) = 3.81356 * (1-M2). M2, the fraction of Wikipediaers who are moderates, can (by definition) only range from 0 to 1. Therefore, the '''very maximum''' is 3.81 (assuming that no Wikipediaers are moderates, which is unlikely to be true). Six is incorrect.--[[User:Manchot|Manchot]] 22:44, 9 March 2007 (EST)