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You don't even have to skew the results, you can impart bias just by choosing which stories to research. I've always liked the way Howard Zinn put it in the aft
by kej 10y ago
You don't even have to skew the results, you can impart bias just by choosing which stories to research. I've always liked the way Howard Zinn put it in the afterword to A People's History of the United States:
>But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the world—by a teacher, a writer, anyone—is a judgment. The judgment that has been made is that this fact is important, and that other facts, omitted, are not important.
- mod 10y agoYou would be imparting a bias on some scale, sure. But to anyone wanting to verify a certain claim, you would impart no bias (they would land on your site, verify the claim, and leave), so long as you were honest & accurate.