How accurate Wikipedia really is? | Katherine Maher

[@normamimosa5991]

Truth is neither complicated no evolutionary. Your historical example wasn't about truth or facts. It was about opinion. I can't tell you how many Wikipedia pages I have read with outright lies about the facts. In fact open-source sites, such as Wikipedia, etc. - even Google - are not just spectacular failures, but also dangerous failures. Open-source dictionaries have diminished the language, open source bios have allowed defamation to creep in without consequences. Open source political pages have spread disinformation as fact. If the people behind these open-source sites want them to continue, they will have to ensure that opinion is noted as opinion and that facts are verified facts. A difficult task, when the MSM, itself, is choking with misinformation, defamation, and even lies.

[@TheBostoniaRecords]

Right on, Norma!

[@warpartyattheoutpost4987]

​@@TheBostoniaRecords, according to a recent Harvard study, Wikipedia is leftist. If Harvard is calling something leftist, it's leftist.

[@warpartyattheoutpost4987]

Harvard's declared that Wikipedia is leftist... if Harvard is calling it leftist, it's leftist.

[@TheBostoniaRecords]

Sorry, truth is not malleable, nor is it opinion. What you're saying are opinions. Your Copernicus example illustrates the differences in opinions at a time when we were seeking a basic understanding of our immediate planetary system.

[@TheAdmirableAdmiral]

To translate: "An agreed upon lie that can maintain power among the current ruling class, is preferable to an inconvenient truth that may possibly challenge that power."

[@ryanr2n2yc]

what a bigot

[@warpartyattheoutpost4987]

Her entire demeanor is.

[@salman_babar]

@21:06 so "we" can focus on substance of the agreement, rather than "identity" of our debater @8:26 it is famously written by "men", almost 80% of its contributors. so only madam gets to talk about identity to her advantage.

[@dawdleaway]

Who controls the science, who funds the data, who stands to benefit most from the agreed upon facts for today...and will they stop censoring, silencing, and imprisoning those who question the agenda of said science/corporations/government?

[@TheAdmirableAdmiral]

I started noticing around 2018 that Wikipedia was getting really biased. I noticed that all the articles written about the Kennedy's were really brutal to them calling them scoundrels and criminals and every article written about LBJ and the LBJ administration (especially his economic advisor who literally murdered a dude in a bar) were all stellar and positive entries. That is when I noticed wikipedia getting really bad bias.

[@davidpahlka6301]

I could have said everything you said in about 5 paragraphs. This is one of the differences between male and female thinking and the reason the two sexes often have arguments although they actually are in agreement. I have taken a couple of I.Q. tests and my I.Q. is 128. In the different categories I averaged about 110 to 115 but in the "patterns" test, I aced it so easily, I couldn't believe how easy it was, whereas in the others I struggled. What it means was I could pin point slight differences even people with overall higher I.Q.' s missed. I use Wikipedia's Almanac almost daily. Marcus Aurelius said the truth is always changing. He understood that truth is evolutionary long before Darwin 'discovered' evolution. Adam Smith predicted the Earth could only support 3 billion people before Armageddon would occur. Historians said his predictions were really accurate if things had stayed the same. What Smith or anyone else couldn't foresee was how technology would change so much that we didn't have to depend mainly on an agricultural economy. We are at 7.8 billion people and the only reason there have been mass famines isn't because of a shortage of food world wide but because of politics and bad decisions by the leaders. Since 1900 the greatest famines have come about because of totalitarian policies such as in Communist Russia, Communist China and Germany before Hitler came to power. In the century before around the 1850's there was the potato famine in Western Europe but again it was bad politics mainly to blame. Before I heard this speech, I felt like declaring a war on your biases. Legally all the battles for equal rights for the various races and women's rights have already been won. What you cannot understand is most women do not want to give up their special place in the world as mothers to gain the same heights as men who spend most of their time reaching the top rungs of society. Often those men are poor Fathers. The woman who is the genius behind the man such as Abigail Adams and others choose to do so. Woman are usually more loving than men and being loved by their children and men is more rewarding to them than status or money. They found their happiness. Don't push them into male roles and ideas of success. Right now, you are doing what I do far too often, don't take my own advice. Your advice makes sense, but you aren't following it.

[@salman_babar]

80% written by men is what exactly makes wikipedia 80% accurate. 80% accurate since men don't write about their experiences, i.e. feelings unlike the 20% now i don't trust 20% of Wikipedia 😂 not sure why Katherine is trying so hard to demonstrate why women can't be CEO. 🤔

[@maximusolivia9982]

The U.S. has had a secure southern border the past 4 years. Fact or opinion?

[@nabrzhunter]

Whoa. Sophistry at its finest. This is a word salad of ideological jargon and constant obfuscation of the implicit terms “objective truth,” “subjective truth,” and “compromise,” pretending that such classifications don’t already exist and are not already known, and thus, a new system must be proposed in their place. This was the most empty-headed, vapid talk wrapped in the flowery meaningless terms a person could hope to hear. Simultaneously meaningless and dangerously deceptive.

[@LarryDanaDavid]

Sophistry, good wood. Thank you

[@Gregory-kv8vj]

That was hard to sit through. Take the plain meaning of a word and distort it so that everybody's OPINION is the truth, occasionally qualifying that statement to say "THEIR TRUTH". Consensus among the 7.8 Billion she talks about is obviously not possible, and even so, does not guarantee Truth. This presentation was over rehearsed and over produced and came across as touchy-feely political correctness which would be at home on many arts college campuses. The product of that type of thinking is YOUR truth even depends on to whom you are speaking. I am fairly sure that a female candidate to the SCOTUS knows quite well what a woman is. She simply does not have the fortitude to state her opinion to an audience among whom there are those who will criticize whatever definition she presents.

[@arongilbert5828]

WEF plant for sure

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[@warpartyattheoutpost4987]

Why would I participate? You censor my comments.