• Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    29·
    4 days ago

    Yes, because the “easily-notable bias” is just a result of discussions done at different times to different evidence, and claiming bias is an overgeneralization.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      10·
      3 days ago

      Bias just means that you have a worldview, which everyone has whether they acknowledge it or not simply by living and existing in the real world.

            • BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.ml
              3·
              1 day ago

              groups usually cancel bias

              Lmao, so we’re just saying shit now, alright. Famously unbiased:

              • The police
              • Lynch mobs
              • Academic institutions
              • Think tanks
              • The KKK
              • The Clergy
              • A group of children

              I think you struggle to understand what the word “bias” means. It seems like it just short-circuits in your brain to “bad”. A group typically enforce the bias inherent to it.

              It requires actively being aware of ones’ bias to counteract it, which is one of many reasons why Wikipedias presentation as a “neutral” source of knowledge is an issue. Because it makes doofuses like you trust it like gospel and react like fanatics to the heresy that maybe the website founded by a zionist, with a longtime issue with power-users (not to mention the infiltration of Nazis that gets brought up once in a while in a feelgood story about someone taking them on), a rule against being critical of "approved sources investegation making use of primary sources, an arbitrary approach as to how trustworthy a source is (the main judgement of which seems to be “do they reinforce state dept. talking points?”); well, it might have some issues.

            • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
              8·
              3 days ago

              Groups do not cancel bias. Wikipedia is overwhelmingly western, which becomes a western bias. Groups reinforce bias.