Re:How Akbar came to love books despite never learning to re...
by srean on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @11:53AM
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> Academic study, showing leftist bias
says rightwing mouthpieces.
Re:How Akbar came to love books despite never learning to re...
by boogies on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @12:16PM
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When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> I do think that needs some stronger sourcing.
Academic study, showing leftist bias: https://hbr.org/2014/12/wikipedia-is-more-biased-than-britan...
> Greenstein and Zhu borrowed this taxonomy of partisan terms and counted their use in pairs of Wikipedia and Britannica articles on the same subject. They calculated bias as the absolute difference between the number of Democratic terms and the number of Republican ones. For example, if an article contained 10 terms associated with Democrats and only three associated with Republicans, its bias score would be seven.
> They found that Wikipedia is significantly more biased than Britannica by this measure, and a bit more left-leaning.
And a co-founder’s perspective: https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/
> Wikipedia’s “NPOV” is dead.