| ▲ | jeffbee 8 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
"Biased but across the spectrum" is nonsense. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | ajross 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Purely semantic arguments aren't helpful to anyone. The word "bias" clearly has two senses in this context. The original term from signal processing indicates a persistent offset, which got appropriated in politics to reflect the idea of a "lean" in coverage. So now "Bias" means "politically charged in some direction or another". So you can have a "biased" term ("occupy") next to another biased term ("tea party") in a search. And it's reasonable to call the whole thing a collection of biased terms even though by the original definition I guess you'd say they cancel out and are "unbiased". Language is language. It may not be rational but it's by definition never "nonsense". Don't argue with it except to clarify. | |||||||||||||||||
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