> > No, it means I have free will and I choose what to believe. > > Free will right, and tell us that when you parrot Rush Limbaugh. With > every response you make, you're just confirming that article I quoted.
You're drifting... > Do you have evidence of that or are you just blowing smoke again. When > I mean evidence, you will need to examine how the so-called bias was > measured. Did they measure time spent of supporting a specific > viewpoint? How about focusing more time on one candidate over another? > Unfortunately you can't say that. You have dismissed a series of > studies without examining the methodology used in assessing bias one > way or another. Without doing that you're just blowing smoke out your > ass. It's called common sense. Most media is biased, MSM to the left and Fox to the right. We all agree, I think you even said it. So if someone say's ONLY Fox is biased, a smart person would recognize the flaw. > Didn't say that at all. Look at the methodology then decide. Until you > do such all you're doing is demonstrating a confirmatory bias. It came from your email. > > >You're right I am, I have a very skeptical view of things and form > > > my > > >own opinions based on evidence, not crappy pablum spoon fed to me > by > > >an obese brain dead drug addict. > > > > Your rage is showing :) > > OK you mean your parroting Limbaugh isn't such? I can do a line by > line comparison to what you have said and what Limbaugh said that day > or a day or two later. You will find that the correspondence is very > high. I'll take that challenge. I never listen to Rush anymore, I browse his site a couple of times a week and read the same blogs he does. > Are you saying that he isn't overweight, Why would I care about his weight? Why do you? What do you have against overweight people? > or underwent treatment > for an addiction to prescription drugs, or was not busted for drug > possession? Why would I care if he had an addiction? Why do you? What do you have against people with addictions? > What evidence was there of bias? you did read the article, I did. You > did not examine how they measured bias, I went through the method > section very carefully. Given that determination, who is demonstrating > bias. You see a certain set of words, and let an automatic heuristic > take over, WITHOUT critically examining the evidence. > > To me that is bias. Now you're just blathering > Do not try and put word in my mouth or ascribe motives. You have no > clue. I base my conclusions on the evidence. I looked at the research > I cited and concluded, based on the evidence, that the rating systems > used in several of the studies were more than adequate. I try not to > let my biases interfer with these conclusions. You're angry and blinded by bitterness. Really. > Here's an example, in one of the studies they used a panel of > observers who were self-identified liberals, conservatives or > moderates. They asked the observers to rate the degree of bias on the > sample of news reports identified as Fox, CNN or a fictitious news > station. The inter rater reliability of the ratings were very high >. > 90. That means that the liberals, moderates and conservatives agreed > far more often than not when they rated something as biased. Was there a point? > Unless you're willing to look at the methodology and do a detailed > analysis of it, you're just demonstrating your own biases. In other > words you're demonstrating the point I was making previously, you're > using the Brand of the news station to short circuit your critical > thinking skills and to leap to a predetermined conclusion. > > To me that's bias. Sometimes the big picture works and you don't need to drill down. For those without critical thinking skills, keep reading :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:260248 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
