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That's backwards. People are found to assign a bias based on the source irregardless of the content. Do I trust articles from FoxNews less just because they are
by grigjd3 8y ago
That's backwards. People are found to assign a bias based on the source irregardless of the content. Do I trust articles from FoxNews less just because they are from FoxNews? If so, that's a bias on my part.
- AllegedAlec 8y agoNo, it's not backwards. It's very easy, even for a biased source, to make information in an article seem non-biased. Therefore, it's imperative to view the content of an article within the framework of by whom it was published.
- grigjd3 8y agoYou realize that your position is, effectively, circular, right? Your argument is that readers can't determine an article's bias by reading it. There seems to be a definition of bias you're using here that can't be measured.
- AllegedAlec 8y ago> You realize that your position is, effectively, circular, right? It's circular in the sense that because a bias is perceived from an organisation, the content of that organisation is attributed a certain bias by the reader, which reinforces the reader's idea of that organisation's bias. Although that is, indeed circular, it's also how humans tend to perceive and process information. > Your argument is that readers can't determine an article's bias by reading it. I fail to see how that is true. If I were to, for example, write an article about a contentious subject, say, for example the positive or negative effect of Trump on America's economy, how, from just the article itself, would you be able to determine whether it was a biased or not? > There seems to be a definition of bias you're using here that can't be measured. I didn't make claims about the measurability of bias.