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Aren't people who are biased towards a cause a good source if you are looking for reasons why people believe that cause? A neutral third party wouldn't have a s
by MichaelBurge 11y ago
Aren't people who are biased towards a cause a good source if you are looking for reasons why people believe that cause? A neutral third party wouldn't have a strong opinion, so they'd be less motivated to do their research since the issue wouldn't matter to them as much.
- fastball 11y agoMany people are motivated to perform thorough and high-quality research even though they are not personally invested in the topic they are researching. Journalists, for instance. I personally prefer a source that is as unbiased as possible, even if that means that there is less "content", because I don't want to have to sort fact from fiction in the biased source. If I had to sort fact from fiction, I would basically be doing the research myself, which would defeat the point of looking at someone else's corpus of research in the first place.