"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 …
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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No, if there is no truth then there is no point in arguing about anything. There is no way to evaluate an argument without truth. So we ASSUME that some axioms are true, and from those axioms derive truth. These axioms make up materialism, as 99% of the world subscribes to it.
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Why are you yelling at a scarecrow?
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"We can then save ourselves trouble of testing and debating" Here you are implying that because there is no truth, that testing and debating are necessary. That if truth exists and can be proven to exist that those are no longer necessary. I respond to that. What is the strawman?
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That is, if a particular truth is inconvenient for the left, or for the right, it is omitted (or watered down) by bipartisan squabbling.
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Sounds like dialectical materialism to me but ok.
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