tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post2186000517188416838..comments2024-03-26T10:02:32.848-04:00Comments on The Adventures of Roberta X: Confirmation Bias: Teachable MomentRoberta Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-16452254729236737232022-01-21T22:48:15.446-05:002022-01-21T22:48:15.446-05:00NPR's will probably take a hit in the next upd...<i>NPR's will probably take a hit in the next update</i><br /><br />I'm not so sure.<br /><br />I see that there's now "suggest an article to rate" button -- which is a little concerning as it biases their sampling of articles -- but perhaps it will draw their attention to this one, and that will move NPR's spot on the chart? <br /><br />If someone puts in a concerted effort to have friends submit many undisputedly accurate articles from their favorite source, and the most egregious uncorrected errors from their least favored but currently rated as "highly accurate" news orgs, will that skew the ratings? <br /><br />If they don't use submitted articles in the ratings, or weight them low, it's quite possible a notable 'oops' like this would not make the small selection of articles that they use in making their evaluations.<br /><br />On another tack, the measure of agreement between articles from different news organizations is part of the evaluation of the accuracy. If Ad Fontes sample from before the statements from the Supreme Court justices were issued, you will find that the high center news sources were *all in agreement* that Gorsuch had been asked to mask but didn't, and only articles from Fox and obscure low right sources suggesting that there was any issue with this reporting. <br /><br />(In checking that, I see many of the same sources appear to be going by versions of the NPR reporting more recent than the supremes' responses in making new commentary saying that the Sotomeyer-Gorsuch and Roberts statements were "non-responsive" to Nina Totenburg's claims in her reporting. It's too bad that NewsDiffs.org doesn't track NPR, but enough others reported the NPR reporting verbatim that I think I can go back and check if my memory is faulty, or if it is them having a chron problem.<br /> <br /><br />Douglas2noreply@blogger.com