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Talk:Examples of Bias in Wikipedia (view source)
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, 03:03, March 10, 2007→Wikipedia six times more liberal than public?
: Please sign your entries using the signature button above. Your math is flawed: many people do not identify themselves as either liberal or conservative.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 21:56, 9 March 2007 (EST)
: Please sign your entries using the signature button above. Your math is flawed: many people do not identify themselves as either liberal or conservative.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 21:56, 9 March 2007 (EST)
::Here is what the currently entry states at: [[Examples of Bias in Wikipedia]]
::"Polls show that about twice as many Americans identify themselves as "conservative" compared with "liberal", and that ratio has been increasing for two decades.[4] But on Wikipedia, about three times as many editors identify themselves as "liberal" compared with "conservative".[5] That suggests Wikipedia is six times more liberal than the American public."
::So the 6 times figure appears to be mathematically '''incorrect'''. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 22:03, 9 March 2007 (EST)conservative