[Textbook-l] Examples of POV in textbooks

[Jimmy Wales]

For the purpose of this general discussion of the relationship
between NPOV and textbooks, we should all dig up some texts and
look for examples.

I used to teach freshman economics 101 at the University of Alabama,
and I remember being frustrated at finding bias in the texts that we
were using.  That was some years ago, and perhaps a review of that
text (which I still have at home somewhere) with an eye towards
finding examples of POV that could be made NPOV might be useful.

Samuelson, in particular, was notorious about putting his personal
judgments into the text as if they were consensus science.  Had
he been subjected to the discipline of wiki-editing, his text might
have been much improved.

--Jimbo