tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161368243189108227.post390760591655996457..comments2023-08-20T03:37:07.774-07:00Comments on PolitiFact Bias: A Little Bit More and We'll Be Inches Away from HacksBryan Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07608604859044029293noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161368243189108227.post-49107268375260597302012-08-31T11:49:10.971-07:002012-08-31T11:49:10.971-07:00Great comments, Scott, and thanks for the praise.
...Great comments, Scott, and thanks for the praise.<br /><br />I'm less convinced than you that good evidence exists for higher levels of bias for conservatives. Perhaps that has to do with which studies we're looking at--I'll be sure to look into what you've written. Academia rivals journalism in the degree to which it slants left, so soundness of a study design far outweighs Bryan Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07608604859044029293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161368243189108227.post-18527095958583656002012-08-31T10:32:46.185-07:002012-08-31T10:32:46.185-07:00I do hope you try a 'Nothing to see here' ...I do hope you try a 'Nothing to see here' effort to provide examples of stories worth fact-checking that liberal-biased fact checkers weren't interested in. It would be great to do a few and ask politifact and others to take a look at doing them, see what the response is. <br /><br />Your emphasis on the selection process as a source of bias is a very important, overlooked aspect of Scott Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04466053976501617269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161368243189108227.post-87677875088547287042012-08-31T00:19:49.065-07:002012-08-31T00:19:49.065-07:00Of course they're both opinions. That's th...Of course they're both opinions. That's the problem. PolitiFact takes conventional oration and judges it against(supposedly) concrete standards. Notice that Romney's claim earns a Pants on Fire rating, which means Louis Jacobson considered it "ridiculous." What's the objective measure for that? There's isn't one, just as there isn't a definitive guide for howJeff D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16256347579300904884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161368243189108227.post-77828434013258119572012-08-31T00:16:47.750-07:002012-08-31T00:16:47.750-07:00Thanks for the comment, Chris.
"Extraordinar...Thanks for the comment, Chris.<br /><br />"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."<br /><br />I believe you're thinking of skeptics, not scientists. Scientists, if they're doing science, require the same strength of evidence for any claim.<br /><br />Bryan Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07608604859044029293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161368243189108227.post-31668284707684989782012-08-31T00:00:19.600-07:002012-08-31T00:00:19.600-07:00They're both opinions, but they both could be ...They're both opinions, but they both could be converted to factual statements that can be evaluated for truthfulness without much difficulty. I'm guessing they reacted to the perceived magnitude of the "free market" statement and felt compelled to respond.<br /><br />What is it that scientists say?<br /> "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."<br /><br /Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13090379314969862813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161368243189108227.post-9866628447725853172012-08-30T23:41:39.953-07:002012-08-30T23:41:39.953-07:00It's "Pants on Fire" because we'...It's "Pants on Fire" because we're actually 7,333 kilometers from ceasing to be a free market economy.<br /><br />That's a big difference.Bryan Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07608604859044029293noreply@blogger.com