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4 days ago · Overall, we rate RationalWiki as Left-Center biased based on the use of loaded language against conservatives and High for factual reporting due to pro-science reporting coupled with proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record.
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Contributors
According to its "About" page, MBFC was started by Dave Van Zandt in November 2015. Other than Van Zandt, the website has fivenow nine other volunteers who perform source research, writing and assist in fact checking, who are: 1. Aaron O’Leary – Writer/Contributor 2. Karen O’Connor Rubsam – Writer/Contributor 3. Kenneth White – Writer/Contributor 4. Jim Fowler – Writer/Contributor 5. Dennis Kelley – Research 6. Michael Allen – Research 7. Faith Locke Siewert – Research 8. McKenzie Huitsing –...
Methodology
According to their FAQ page, their methodology "is a simple tool that provides a general rating of bias" but it "is not a scientifically proven methodology."Their methodology page contains this disclaimer: Sites are rated on a 0-10 scale by Van Zandt and his team on 4 categories, biased wording and headlines, factuality and sourcing, story choices and political affiliation. The scores of each of these (biased wording, factuality, story choices, political affiliation) is averaged to give one b...
Trusted websites
MBFC's most trusted fact checking websitesinclude:
Predictably, MBFC has drawn ire from several of the websites that file under "Conspiracy/Pseudoscience" or "Questionable Sources" — typically, in light of their regular publication of fake news and/or general bigotry. For example, WND was rated by MBFC as having mixed factual reporting and right-wing bias. WND then included MBFC in their article ti...
The Columbia Journalism Review has described MBFC reviews as subjective assessments that "leave room for human biases, or even simple inconsistencies, to creep in". According to the methodology listed on the MBFC website, reviews may be assigned after reviewing as little as ten headlines and five articles,which may only represent but a sliver of al...
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A 2019 study of bias analysis based on word embedding in RationalWiki, Conservapedia, and Wikipedia by researchers from RWTH Aachen University found all had significant gender biases, reflecting classical gender stereotypes, but these biases were less pronounced in RationalWiki.
Hey, so I used to be a rationalist for a long ass time, and I remember somehow picking up the impression that RationalWiki was an unreliable and biased source (shockingly, they were also incredibly critical of Lesswrong).
Mar 28, 2024 · Cognitive bias describes the inherent thinking errors that humans make in processing information. Some of these have been verified empirically in the field of psychology, while others are considered general categories of bias.
May 10, 2024 · Selection bias is the bias that occurs in a survey or experimental data when the selection of data points isn't sufficiently random to draw a general conclusion. If selection bias isn't accounted for or acknowledged, and the results are claimed to be widely applicable, it is known as the spotlight fallacy.
Sep 10, 2017 · As far as I understood, RationalWiki was created in opposition of the unscientific and politically biased claims of Conservapedia, and this is good. But I think that RW, although it is undoubtedly much less biased than Conservapedia, suffers itself of many biases.
