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Really interesting findings on clickbait. I worry about the viability of the second half, using machine learning to detect bias (which seemed admittedly inconcl
by brownbat 10y ago
Really interesting findings on clickbait. I worry about the viability of the second half, using machine learning to detect bias (which seemed admittedly inconclusive).
> finding bias in headlines is a more subjective exercise than finding it in Wikipedia articles...
Probably because bias from new Wikipedia users is less careful. And absent smoking guns, once you get into the gray areas, several studies have shown bias is often in the eye of the beholder:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect