[Wikimedia-l] Recent Research report: collaboration between editors of different political affiliations, predicting box office revenue, the Essjay controversy, and more

[ENWP Pine]

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 at pigsonthewing.org.uk>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at 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
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> On 28 November 2012 19:50, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > "Based on an analysis of a sample of 1390 editors with known political
> > affiliation ? either US Democrat or Republican..."
> 
> I detect a systematic bias...
> 
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