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____/ Snit on Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 16:26 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz stated in post 1894066.WaBTJ5EOot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 7/5/11
> 12:19 AM:
> 
>>>>>> About software patents, media, etc.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://www.muktware.com/news/02/2011/1636
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hope you like it... :-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> In the interview you say:
>>>>> 
>>>>>     "Biased" is a word people use to describe one whose
>>>>>     convictions are strong and vocal.  ... People who call you
>>>>>     "biased" to discredit a claim are probably not fence sitters,
>>>>>     i.e. these are people whom you may never have been able to
>>>>>     convince in the first place. The use of the word is a shrewd
>>>>>     attempt to discourage fence sitters from assessing the
>>>>>     opposing point of view. To be labeled "bias" may sometimes
>>>>>     mean that you are effective at what you do.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So your own "bias" is not, in your view, something you see as bad.  But of
>>>>> others and their biases, you say:
>>>>> 
>>>>>     When the media puts business before information, we become
>>>>>     susceptible to biased priorities, which is also why we
>>>>>     continue to have all sorts of disinformation outside the
>>>>>     field of computing.
>>>>>     ...
>>>>>     There are many different approaches to selling bias (e.g. PR,
>>>>>     lobbying) and also to providing alleged information (e.g.
>>>>>     analyst reports, endorsements).
>>>>>     ...
>>>>>     Needless to add, a few years ago many former Microsoft UK
>>>>>     executives joined the BBC, which whether they intend to or
>>>>>     not, will likely result in bias (tinted glasses vision).
>>>>> 
>>>>> So when people point out your bias they are making shred attempts to
>>>>> prevent folks from looking at both sides... but then you call others
>>>>> biased... doing the exact thing you imply is wrong.  Your biases are
>>>>> fine... other's who disagree are not.  You are showing a meta-bias.  :)
>>>> 
>>>> Everyone has a bias. It's called an opinion.
>>> 
>>> So why imply yours are fine but others' are not?
>> 
>> Where did I imply that?
> 
> When people claim you are biased, they do so because of a "shrewd attempt to
> discourage fence sitters from assessing the opposing point of view", but
> when when people disagree with you, you then call them biased - which,
> presumably, is not an example of you using such a "shrewd attempt".  Or is
> it?

I don't call people "biased". I routinely call particular people "Microsoft boosters", which
is what they are (they probably would not deny it, either).

- -- 
		~~ Best of wishes

Dr. Roy S. Schestowitz (Ph.D. Medical Biophysics), Imaging Researcher
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