[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

[Andrew Gray]

On 06/12/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/12/06, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I do think there is significant systemic bias in terms of what things
> > tend to be nominated for deletion, however.  Not the biggest source of
> > systemic bias by any means, as you point out.
>
>
> I suspect it's often systematic bias, i.e. a deep conviction that
> certain areas of coverage should be killed and anyone disagreeing must
> be clueless or a troll.

*However*, it's worth noting that whilst this is a form of systemic
bias, it's not usually related to the major fields where we actually
worry about our systemic bias.

(By which I mean: we worry about systemic bias over non-western
regions and cultures, over gender issues, etc... but our "deletion
systemic bias" is about schools and Western pop-culture cruft)

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk