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Dave92f1's avatar

How could it be otherwise? Wikipedia is written and edited by volunteers, and naturally reflects the views of those volunteers.

Left of center people are generally far more literate than right of center people - more have college degrees, more of those are in journalism or literature or politics. (Exactly as with the media in general.)

None of that makes them smarter or more likely to be correct, but it does make them far more likely to edit Wikipedia (and to be in the media industry).

Perhaps right-of-center people are more mathematical (this is pure speculation) or practical, or honest, or ...whatever. But none of that makes them likely to spend time writing articles for Wikipedia.

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RDM's avatar

What a massive, gaping hole this article fills so superbly!

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