Beware of false balance¶
Berkeley), U. S. (. Beware of false balance: Are the views of the scientific community accurately portrayed?.
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- Symmetric Response to Asymmetric State
- Education and peer review. "Both-sides" treatment of settled questions upgrades the under-evidenced position by granting it parity of presentation, and equally weighted rubric items can mask quality asymmetries.
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Berkeley's page supports the false-balance point about settled science, framed for journalism and policy, but says nothing on education, peer review or equally weighted rubrics.
“Journalism and policies that falsely grant all viewpoints the same scientific legitimacy effectively undo one of the main aims of science: to weigh the evidence.”
- Education and peer review. "Both-sides" treatment of settled questions upgrades the under-evidenced position by granting it parity of presentation, and equally weighted rubric items can mask quality asymmetries.
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