[Wikipedia-l] Collective POV ("systemic bias") rampant

[Stirling Newberry]

On Nov 26, 2004, at 11:35 PM, Mark Williamson wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:03:56 -0500, Stirling Newberry
> <stirling.newberry at xigenics.net> wrote:
>> You aren't describing systematic bias. Systematic bias is when the
>> results are skewed by either selection of inputs or by the process
>> applied to inputs. The wiki process realizes that individual editors
>> have POV. The solution to use of non-POV phrases is not to proclaim
>> systematic bias, which you have not proven by showing a statistically
>> significant skew, but instead to go in and edit them.
>
> And thus, the fact that as a general rule more pages at en.wikipedia
> are viewed and edited by Americans than anybody else, and by a much
> larger margin by more people from Anglophone countries than anywhere
> else, is systemic bias.

You are still using "systematic bias" incorrectly. When you start using 
terms correctly, perhaps there will be some value to having a 
discussion with you.