[WikiEN-l] An observation

[Phil Sandifer]

On Nov 12, 2006, at 6:41 PM, David Gerard wrote:

> On 12/11/06, Ryan Wetherell <renardius at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh, "systematic bias", that's exactly the term I was looking for.
>
>
> Not quite ;-) "systematic bias" implies it's deliberate; "systemic
> bias" implies it isn't, and is a symptom of something about the system
> itself.

In other words, systemic bias is when our administrator and  
arbitrator pools are disproportionately white American males.  
Systematic bias is when I went and banned all of the black Australian  
women on Wikipedia last night.

-Phil