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...Nature found that Wikipedia's science entries came close to matching the Encyclopaedia Britannica's in terms of accuracy - with 2.92 mistakes per article for Britannica and 3.86 for Wikipedia - no one argues that Wikipedia's content is flawless. Critics say the writing is clunky or prone to bias and that the authors focus on pet projects. Indeed, the site's list of Star Wars creatures totals more than 15,000 words, while the entire entry on World War II has just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wikipedia | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

Hard economic times - and the desperation with which people who still have jobs guard them - may also be exacerbating the problem. So as the fiscal crisis eases, the anti-immigrant bias may too. Most important, says Timberlake, is to remember U.S. history. Every immigrant group that was demonized and ostracized eventually overcame the prejudice and became part of the nation's cultural quilt. "We've seen this movie before," he says. It almost always ends happily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stereotypes Persist Even Where Immigrants Don't | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

...Critics have also attacked the ways points could be awarded. Some worry that the "active citizenship" fast track would coerce candidates into volunteering, while the suggestion of political canvassing raised more than a few eyebrows. Some note it could lead to a bias toward the ruling Labour Party. (Watch a TIME video with PM Gordon Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Citizenship: Points Off for Protest? | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

There are definitely positives to being on the lower end of this age bias. I’ve only once paid for lunch at work (and that was when I went out with my young, hipster coworker), because I’m the youngest person in the company. When a seat opens up during rush hour on the Seoul Metro, the older men in suits stand by, and I only have to fight with the other young women in the car for it. When I go out with my Korean friends, the older ones take the lead and organize things...

Author: By Anita J Joseph | Title: The Age Handicap | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

...give me a minute, I'll find the piece of mail or license that proves it to you." It seems it wasn't the policeman doing the profiling, it was you. You played him for a racist cop and treated him disrespectfully. Had you truly feared bias, you would surely have behaved in a more controlled, rather than a less controlled...

Author: By Ruth R. Wisse | Title: A Colleague's Concerns | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

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