"Our analysis then reveals that polarized teams—those consisting of a balanced set of politically diverse editors—create articles of higher quality than politically homogeneous teams. The effect appears most strongly in Wikipedia’s Political articles..."https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/943507941629476869 …
How exactly are they evaluating the "quality" of an article? Looking at the paper they are presuming that a featured article is a good article, while a stub is a bad article. Is this necessarily the case? Isn't it possible (or likely even) that a featured article is more wrong?
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Depends on your epistemological framing, doesn't it? Wikipedia is open source. If you have a more reliable method, you're free to host and publish.
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The point I'm trying to make is something like this: Of course articles with political diversity of editors are more likely to be featured. In order for an article to be featured, it has to be approved by a consensus. This process makes the article more tolerable to the average.
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This of course, doesn't represent the "quality" of an article, which I would argue is determined by its truth value. It is entirely possible that this consensus process actually LOWERS the truth value of an article. If the truth is offensive to the other side, it is contested.
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By some objective standard of truth you happen to have access to, no doubt.
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I'm not making any claims about what is and is not true. I'm presuming that there is a truth, and that in some cases (maybe in many cases) it is contrary to the ideology of the left and the right. I'm assuming truths that contradict the ideology are likely to be suppressed...
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Your presumption is that there is a truth. Demonstrate it, and we can then save ourselves the trouble of testing and debating. You'll be humanity's greatest champion, forever remembered.
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Obviously I can't do that.
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Damn. Guess we'll have to continue to argue about stuff
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