by Henry Oliner | Jul 15, 2020 | Science, Social
From Unheard, Why We Stopped Trusting Experts: Ritchie’s section on bias also includes a clear account of some technical elements of statistical reasoning, failures to adhere to which are Ritchie classes as “analytic biases.” These biases include things like only...
by Henry Oliner | May 20, 2020 | Media
I have often quoted Peggy Noonan’s observation in her book Patriotic Grace of the great media shift. In the days before cable and internet we had fewer sources, but we all read the same news, heard the same stories and generally with the same frequency; a story did...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 18, 2015 | Media
It is not news that big media is politically biased. The recent Netanyahu election was predicted to be close if not actually a defeat for the leader. He won by a substantial margin. That they were so wrong in their prediction by a wide margin, should call into...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 23, 2009 | Anti Semitism
I was listening to Neal Boortz while on the treadmill the other day and the talkmaster was answering a caller’s question about the difference between racism and bigotry. Racism is belief in the superiority of once race over another. A racist may actually like...
