[WikiEN-l] An observation

Sun Nov 12 23:48:13 UTC 2006

It's unfortunate, yes, but it's not broken.  Why fix it?

On 11/12/06, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 12, 2006, at 6:41 PM, David Gerard wrote:
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> > On 12/11/06, Ryan Wetherell <renardius at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> Oh, "systematic bias", that's exactly the term I was looking for.
> >
> >
> > Not quite ;-) "systematic bias" implies it's deliberate; "systemic
> > bias" implies it isn't, and is a symptom of something about the system
> > itself.
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> In other words, systemic bias is when our administrator and
> arbitrator pools are disproportionately white American males.
> Systematic bias is when I went and banned all of the black Australian
> women on Wikipedia last night.
>
> -Phil
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