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And who said data can't be biased, anyway? It most often is
by Capricorn2481 3y ago
And who said data can't be biased, anyway? It most often is
- bhupy 3y agoTo be clear, there is certainly a spectrum/degree for bias. The best kind of news/journalism informs readers based on factually accurate and unbiased data — and perhaps uses noteworthy current events and human interest anecdotes to corroborate that data. A worse kind of news/journalism partially misinforms readers by presenting factually accurate data in a biased way. The worst kind of news/journalism entirely misinforms readers by presenting an anecdote (or a statistically insignificant collection of anecdotes). Unfortunately the majority of news today (at least in the US) falls into that 3rd bucket.