I made a rentry page a week ago, but I want to know

78 points

20 years in the future

permalink
report
reply
8 points

The implied claim that historical accounts are unbiased seems tenuous.

permalink
report
parent
reply
13 points

Why not take in many sources and then average out what you hear?

permalink
report
reply
-9 points

Hahaha so naive

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

How so?

permalink
report
parent
reply
14 points
*

The wisdom of the crowds is eerily accurate when there are lots of independent samples. Keyword, independent. As soon as each of the samples are aware of each other, or, the number of independent samples proves to not actually be that high, it falls apart pretty quickly.

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

Read their username

permalink
report
parent
reply
11 points

What kind of information do you want to know about him? What do you find biased about whatever youโ€™ve been reading? Itโ€™s not very clear how to answer this question.

permalink
report
reply
26 points

All sources have biases. Just find out what each sourcesโ€™ biases are, and you should be okay.

permalink
report
reply

I go to all sides to get the majority of my โ€˜headlinesโ€™

permalink
report
reply

Asklemmy

!asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Create post

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, itโ€™s welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Icon by @Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de

Community stats

  • 7K

    Monthly active users

  • 3.7K

    Posts

  • 82K

    Comments