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Placement bias is the manipulation of the placement of a fact in a document in order to manipulate the impression left in the reader by that fact. As any newspaper editor knows, the number of people who read a fact is proportional to its proximity to the beginning of the article. Moreover, readers expect the more important facts to be first, and place more emphasis on them in reading an article.
Placement bias is the manipulation of the order and placement of information in order to distort the impression left in the reader. [[Liberals]] often use placement bias to obscure important facts unfavorable to their argument, and to promote [[liberal]] claims beyond what is justified. For example, the [[Wikipedia]] entry on [[Boy Scouts v. Dale]], a case that they lost, features near the top of the entry glowing praise of the attorney on their side, which had no relevance to the decision that he lost.<ref>[[Bias in Wikipedia]].</ref>
On Wikipedia, placement bias is taken on step further by downplaying facts unfavorable to [[liberals]] by placing them in less-visited entries.
As any newspaper editor knows, the number of people who read a fact is proportional to its proximity to the beginning of the article. Moreover, readers expect the more important facts to be first, and place more emphasis on them in reading an article.
On [[Wikipedia]], placement bias is taken on step further by downplaying facts unfavorable to [[liberals]] by placing them in entirely different, and less-visited, entries.
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