Word: biased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quite a few History and Literature majors were nonplussed last year by the selection of Stephen. Thernstrom as the speaker at the annual History and Lit dinner. His brand of history was not theirs. Yet the distinction they saw was not one of historical philosophy or bias or method of analysis, but merely that Thernstrom employed certain facts from history that, being numbers, required some basic mathematical treatment before being placed in a larger frame of analysis. The real differences among historians--those we should tune our minds to discover--do not concern whether data is mathematical...
...detached analysis that told Fogel and Engerman how many whippings constitute harsh treatment of slaves, or how much confidence slaveholders had that the system would endure. So long as a researcher confines himself to recompiling old records, his work can indeed be devoid of historical context and bias. But as soon as he compares his results to those of others, as soon as he draws any historical conclusions, he loses his claim to special objectivity and his work becomes another work of history, whether good...
...more intricate than the famed Hampton Court Palace maze outside London ("Not much to solve there," sniffs Bright. " All you need to do is keep taking the left turn"). One Bright invention is what he calls the principle of "partial valves," by which, he says enigmatically, he introduces "a bias in a closed system of paths so I can make it more difficult to get from Point B to A than from A to B." Another feature of his people-traps is Bright's Principle...
...resolution was proposed by Accuracy in Media, Inc., a group that publicized incidents of alleged bias or inaccuracy in East coast news media...
...statement issued yesterday, the ACSR said it has recommended that the University vote its 33.26 shares against a shareholder resolution calling for CBS to set up a committee to investigate bias in news reporting, and instead send the letter...