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> Has anyone tried taking large numbers of Fox citations, counting whether they are good or bad, and comparing that to baselines? Not necessarily a bad idea, b
by Beltalowda 4y ago
> Has anyone tried taking large numbers of Fox citations, counting whether they are good or bad, and comparing that to baselines?
Not necessarily a bad idea, but it suffers from some amount of bias in that "bad stories" are less likely to be used as references, so it doesn't necessarily say all that much about "when should or shouldn't you use Fox News as a reference" in general. It might be better to use a random sample of Fox News stories from the last few years.
- ALittleLight 4y agoMy intuition would be to test the sample that wikipedia editors do reference rather than the sample they might reference - but I think either methodology is an improvement over "argue about it and then summarize the argument".