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Talk:Examples of Bias in Wikipedia (view source)
Revision as of 23:10, March 13, 2007
, 23:10, March 13, 2007→Liberal Wikipedians as compared to conservative Wikipedians
:: Folks, all polls or sample sizes are "an extremely small percentage" of the population. That does not make it invalid.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 17:11, 13 March 2007 (EDT)
:: Folks, all polls or sample sizes are "an extremely small percentage" of the population. That does not make it invalid.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 17:11, 13 March 2007 (EDT)
::: It does. The Harris poll was contained from a statistical significant sample of 6,000 people, and the results were weighted for sex, education, age, etc to have the outcome match the general population. Also, it had 3 possible answers: conservative, moderate, liberal.
The wikipedia numbers are based on a selfselected sample of about 300 people who felt like putting political orientation into their profile. This sample is unlikely to be representative for the 3.8 million wikipedians. Even if your guts tell you that a rate 3 to 1 liberal is close to reality. Its your guts that says this, because these numbers don't prove anything. These numbers are not corrected for age, sex, education. And there are only two choices: liberal, and conservative (in contrast to 3). And the way you compute with fractions is even fundamentally flawed, even if the numbers were right and significant, but that a different issue altogether.
Since this is the only '''bold''' statement in the entire article on bias in Wikipedia, it better be right. However, it is wrong on so many levels. The only thing that speaks for it that it coincides with your gut feeling. It is a gift to any liberal who want to ridicule you. Its like starting a football match and giving away penalty kicks to the opponents. --[[User:Order|Order]] 10:03, 14 March 2007 (AEST)
== How are we supposed to contribute? ==
== How are we supposed to contribute? ==