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Everyone has political motivations. You're going to entirely discount a group that studies migration from the most esteemed university in the UK because you don
by ciaranm 10y ago
Everyone has political motivations. You're going to entirely discount a group that studies migration from the most esteemed university in the UK because you don't like what someone puts on their twitter feed?
- fixxer 10y agoYep. It suggests bias in the methods used to collect and publish data. This is perfectly rational. Do you trust political polling from pollsters with party affiliation? I hope not.
- ciaranm 10y agoWho do you know who's genuinely not political? People have biases all over the place. They're not going to disappear - understand them, acknowledge them, interpret them. Don't just shrug your shoulders and say "nah I don't like that". They're not publishing opinion pieces - it's research.
- fixxer 10y agoNow we're making progress: I don't. Over the last couple years, I've started mentally putting a "P(BULLSHIT)" next to every source I read. The estimate keeps growing. While you might want to make this an ad hominem attack, all I can say is that my probability estimates are pretty darn bipartisan.
- coldtea 10y ago>from the most esteemed university in the UK Isn't usually the most "esteemed" establishments that are closer to the party line? That's par for the course of being "esteemed".