Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:00PM
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It's kind of like this meme with two people seeing a number, one saying 6 and other saying 9 - except in reality it's neither; it's a piece of a shadow of a large pretzel. Real-life issues are complex, multidimensional beasts. Disagreement between honest people often comes from them not realizing that what they know and believe is a projection, a dimensionality reduction. Same is with the news - they usually offer what amounts to projecting a 42-dimensional object into two or one dimensions.
I used to think if I read through media with opposing biases then I'd understand the real story. But in most cases there's just a huge amount of relevant context missing even if the articles are factually correct.
In the same way that you can present statistical data in a way to support a view when the data doesn't actually support it despite being factually accurate.