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Re:Foreigners ready to join Ukraine's fight must pass toughe... by toss1 on Sunday April 10, 2022 @03:25PM (#30980750)
Interesting, they use a Reliability Score range of 0 to 64 and a Bias Score range of -42 to +42.

Easy to adjust reading once I knew that, but I'm curious why they don't normalize them both to something more commonly seen like 0 to 100 or -10 to +10?

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Re:Foreigners ready to join Ukraine's fight must pass toughe... by rntn on Monday April 11, 2022 @10:20AM (#30989104)
I agree. There have been attempts to do that (and more) such as :

https://jjpryor.medium.com/how-statistically-biased-is-our-n...

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