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Let's say that it makes it clear which way the person is leaning. You've bought into nine tenths of the paradigm and are assuming its premises to direct your qu

Let's say that it makes it clear which way the person is leaning. You've bought into nine tenths of the paradigm and are assuming its premises to direct your questioning attention. Despite being a bias this feels like nothing, because your beliefs about reality are aligned with the paradigm. You can only feel the bias when your beliefs are very much not aligned with the paradigm. "Are all white people racists?" You can feel that one, can't you?

rl3 11y ago
>Let's say that it makes it clear which way the person is leaning. Unless they're searching those phrases for a myriad of other reasons that have nothing to do with that person being a racist. In which case, your argument kind of falls apart. >"Are all white people racists?" You can feel that one, can't you? I'm not sure if that comment is more presumptuous than it is condescending, or vice versa.
slavik81 11y ago
Not at all. Consider the same sort of thing with a different topic. The search "spy on Americans" is also an action stated as a search, but probably represents someone wanting information about people who spy on Americans. The searches phrased as questions strike me as likely to have a more unified intent, but even then there may be a lot of variation.