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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (24942)7/24/2006 11:00:15 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 542621
 
You either have folks who are right and folks who are wrong

Yes, you do, but it doesn't matter. You have results showing A-bias people finding A and B bias. You have results showing B-bias people finding A and B bias. That means that some of the people are wrong whichever way the bias actually goes. If some people are wrong when the pieces are biased, then they will be wrong when the pieces aren't. So the bias of the piece doesn't matter.

If the study were concluding that A people were more likely to be wrong than B people, for example, then the actual bias would matter. But the study didn't go that far. What the study demonstrated is that some people will find bias against their side regardless, and that is the point.

I agree that a study showing which side is right more often or which bias is prevalent more often would be interesting, but that's another study. This study, a simpler one, has its own interesting results.
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