"Biased" teaching and even research is often motivated as COUNTER-bias to endemic bias that the teacher or researcher feels has imbued society for a long time. The systematic revelation of suppressed data CAN BE, and even IS biased, but perhaps nonetheless justified. The thought experiment is incomplete as to this condition.
Many people thus voted for Trump to counter wokeness. Hitler was elected to counter communism. And so on.
I don't quite follow why you say the thought experiment is incomplete. Even if one is aiming for counter bias, it is reasonable to expect someone to say "Look, it is true that X has these features, but what they are not telling you about are these other features, so temper your understanding." One guy saying "X is perfectly evil!" countered by another saying "X is perfectly good!" doesn't do much illuminate compared to more even handed arguments even if they disagree.
"Biased" teaching and even research is often motivated as COUNTER-bias to endemic bias that the teacher or researcher feels has imbued society for a long time. The systematic revelation of suppressed data CAN BE, and even IS biased, but perhaps nonetheless justified. The thought experiment is incomplete as to this condition.
Many people thus voted for Trump to counter wokeness. Hitler was elected to counter communism. And so on.
I don't quite follow why you say the thought experiment is incomplete. Even if one is aiming for counter bias, it is reasonable to expect someone to say "Look, it is true that X has these features, but what they are not telling you about are these other features, so temper your understanding." One guy saying "X is perfectly evil!" countered by another saying "X is perfectly good!" doesn't do much illuminate compared to more even handed arguments even if they disagree.
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Yeah, that needs to be fixed pronto.
And why do 'affluent, middle class people under 30' prefer to watch leftist news?