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Wikipedia Bias
Boston Review ^ | November 2009 | Evgeny Morozov

Posted on 11/09/2009 11:18:20 AM PST by SamuelOregon

"[Wikipedia Authors] are 80 percent male, more than 65 percent single, more than 85 percent without children, and around 70 percent of them are under the age of 30."

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonreview.net ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bds; internet; lavendermafia; liberalism; newsbias; pravdamedia; wikibias; wikipedia; wikipediabias
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1 posted on 11/09/2009 11:18:24 AM PST by SamuelOregon
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To: SamuelOregon

Mostly gay then?


2 posted on 11/09/2009 11:20:57 AM PST by donna (The fruits of Feminism: Angry fathers, bitter mothers, fat kids.)
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To: SamuelOregon

How many of them live in mom’s basement?


3 posted on 11/09/2009 11:21:37 AM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: SamuelOregon

I’m curious, does anyone know the demographics of FreeRepublic.com?


4 posted on 11/09/2009 11:23:07 AM PST by MNDude (The Republican Congress Economy--1995-2007)
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To: MNDude; Slings and Arrows

I’m curious, does anyone know the demographics of FreeRepublic.com?

25% viking kitty...


5 posted on 11/09/2009 11:24:30 AM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: MNDude

90% grouchy old men.

Myself included.


6 posted on 11/09/2009 11:24:38 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: donna
I hear they are very clean guys who listen to a lot of show tunes.
7 posted on 11/09/2009 11:25:51 AM PST by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: MNDude
From Quantcast:

US Demographics

All Available Demographics

8 posted on 11/09/2009 11:26:16 AM PST by mnehring
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To: MNDude
More FR stats from Quantcast:

http://www.quantcast.com/freerepublic.com#demographics

9 posted on 11/09/2009 11:29:09 AM PST by mnehring
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To: MNDude

A statistical analysis of all posts heretofore made reveals that the average Freeper is a wealthy, heartthrob who has declined several Medals of Honor out of a profound sense of humility and who has missed only one meeting of the local Mensa chapter, owing to a scheduling conflict the personal audience granted by the Pope.

Why do you ask?


10 posted on 11/09/2009 11:32:17 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mr. Lucky

Because my mom says I should shut off my computer, and go play outside with kids my age!


11 posted on 11/09/2009 11:34:16 AM PST by MNDude (The Republican Congress Economy--1995-2007)
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To: mnehring

Any idea how any of this “data” was compiled? Personally I don’t remember anyone asking.


13 posted on 11/09/2009 11:37:53 AM PST by rhombus
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To: donna

Or military.


14 posted on 11/09/2009 11:38:09 AM PST by Oztrich Boy ("it's so American It's like, let's eat baloney sandwiches and be racist" - Karen, HIMYM)
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To: SycoDon
Mouth breathing, mother’s basement dwelling, no girlfriend, liberal Democrats.

Nonsense. Surely some of the women have girlfriends.

15 posted on 11/09/2009 11:38:59 AM PST by rhombus
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To: rhombus

Quantcast gathers data two ways, one is direct record collection (doesn’t look like it does that with FR per their disclaimers), second is analytics of traffic based on sites that do collect data. Basically, for example, they do collect this data off TownHall, they see traffic from FR to TownHall so they compare that traffic and use it to compile a demographic profile for FR. (a lot more complex than that as it compiles data from tens of thousands of sites).

Basically, you don’t have to give a lick of data for computers to get an idea of the site’s demographic make-up.


16 posted on 11/09/2009 11:41:04 AM PST by mnehring
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To: MNDude

I suspect about 70% male, frequently refers to John McCain as “that young punk” and has at least twice shouted “hey you kids, get off my lawn!”


17 posted on 11/09/2009 11:58:02 AM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: mnehring

According to their data that diverse group over at DU are full of it.

Free Republic
African American
There are more African American visitors here than average

DU
Caucasian
There are more Caucasian visitors here than average


18 posted on 11/09/2009 12:02:11 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Waste and fraud are synonymous with gov't spending)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

The people who visit democraticunderground.com are also likely to visit:

Affinity
thinkprogress.org 84.0x
mediamatters.org 78.3x
crooksandliars.com 75.7x
talkingpointsmemo.co... 74.3x
wonkette.com 70.2x
buzzflash.com 66.9x
dailykos.com 60.3x
americablog.com 56.0x
thirdworldtraveler.c ... 52.4x
commondreams.org 50.6x
politifact.com 50.0x
truthdig.com 49.7x
healthcare-now.org 49.6x
rawstory.com 48.8x
davidduke.com 46.

Note the last entry. I always suspected Democratic Undergrounders of being bigots.


19 posted on 11/09/2009 12:08:59 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: SamuelOregon

WIKI means Edit. Thus anyone can edit it.


20 posted on 11/09/2009 12:10:52 PM PST by Sprite518
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