Andy,

Can you clarify your concerns about systemic bias? Are you referring to the absence of minor US political parties in this study, or that this was a study focused on US contributors?

Pine

Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:49:03 +0000 From: Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recent Research report: collaboration between editors of different political affiliations, predicting box office revenue, the Essjay controversy, and more Message-ID: CABiXOEkaTqD8XV=EqXL4hzL=PaS+2X5mk0ON7MoEki-p6qq+Yw@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252

On 28 November 2012 19:50, ENWP Pine deyntestiss@hotmail.com wrote:

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"Based on an analysis of a sample of 1390 editors with known political affiliation ? either US Democrat or Republican..."

I detect a systematic bias...

-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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