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Thou Shalt Not Have Bias
Corporate media’s obsession with providing equal coverage for all “points of view” or making sure that they do not criticize one party more than the other, is ridiculous and has nothing to do with fairness. Fairness does not mean giving platforms equally to truths and falsehoods. Social media is already providing ample opportunity for dissemination…
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How Reliable Are Election Polls?
I will provide, below, a brief and very basic introduction to the main concepts involved in the polling process, to setup the stage for the main point I would like to make in the last few paragraphs. If you are familiar with statistics and probability theory, you are encouraged to skip to the last few…