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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources

You can notice a bias towards the state media from pro-capitalist regimes from the above.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Bias just means that you have a worldview, which everyone has whether they acknowledge it or not simply by living and existing in the real world.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ok, but I wasn't the one implying Wikipedia editors as a group are biased.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They are. Everyone has a bias.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Me:

as a group

You:

everyone

Groups usually cancel bias. And the leftover bias is not "easily notable"

[–] BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

groups usually cancel bias

Lmao, so we're just saying shit now, alright. Famously unbiased:

  • The police
  • Lynch mobs
  • Academic institutions
  • Think tanks
  • The KKK
  • The Clergy
  • A group of children

I think you struggle to understand what the word "bias" means. It seems like it just short-circuits in your brain to "bad". A group typically enforce the bias inherent to it.

It requires actively being aware of ones' bias to counteract it, which is one of many reasons why Wikipedias presentation as a "neutral" source of knowledge is an issue. Because it makes doofuses like you trust it like gospel and react like fanatics to the heresy that maybe the website founded by a zionist, with a longtime issue with power-users (not to mention the infiltration of Nazis that gets brought up once in a while in a feelgood story about someone taking them on), a rule against ~~being critical of "approved sources~~ ~~investegation~~ making use of primary sources, an arbitrary approach as to how trustworthy a source is (the main judgement of which seems to be "do they reinforce state dept. talking points?"); well, it might have some issues.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 days ago

I trust Wikipedia because I edit on it, and I have no will to continue this conversation.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago

Groups do not cancel bias. Wikipedia is overwhelmingly western, which becomes a western bias. Groups reinforce bias.