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> major errors in the attribution reporting or, even worse, basic fact-checking of the documents No. There are major errors in your and GP's reading comprehens
by torstenvl 5y ago
> major errors in the attribution reporting or, even worse, basic fact-checking of the documents
No. There are major errors in your and GP's reading comprehension. The article is absolutely clear it is talking about Edinburgh's school of informatics.
Immediately after spelling out the university's full name in the preceding sentence, the article says "The top-flight Russell Group university’s school of informatics claims there are 'problematic issues related to computing terminology'"
That is the only mention of the Russell Group.
Reasonable people may disagree, I suppose, as to whether the University of Edinburgh deserves an epithet like "the top-flight Russell Group university," but no reasonable person can disagree that that is exactly what the authors did.
- mst 5y ago"Russell Group School of Informatics" was literally a copy-paste from the article. My reading comprehension is just fine. So is my clipboard. It is, in fact, possible to be anti-wokescold and also care about criticising one's opponents precisely. I wish more people on the same side of the argument as me would remember that.
- torstenvl 5y agoStop. Lying. That text does not appear on that page and hasn't appeared on that page, even going back to yesterday when it was first posted. https://web.archive.org/web/20210904202955/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/04/woke-wars-edinburghs-computer-scientists-banned-using-alice/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210904202955/https://www.teleg... You clearly skipped over the word "university's" and now you're lying about using copy-paste to cover it up because you're too proud to admit the original minor mistake.