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by raleighm 2845 days ago
Well done. As others noted, I feared worse based on the headline.

But I think it's really important to replace the "left bias"<>"right bias" slider with a button and text field that simply requests users to report non-neutrality in the write-up, without identifying it as "left" or "right".

Reduction to left/right is rarely helpful and often unhelpful. For most issues complex/significant enough to warrant headline, there isn't -- or shouldn't be -- a monolithic "left" or "right" position one could be biased towards.

Is an authoritarian bias left or right? Is a populist bias left or right? Or is a pro-universal-income bias left or right? Is legislative supremacy as opposed to judicial supremacy a left or right bias?

Better to get the yes/no data about perceived non-neutrality and then analyze the qualitative comment.

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Agreed. Without the two party political system with their entrenched collection of positions, who knows what subgroups might appear. Low tax, high spending (i.e. pro deficit)? Pro gay marriage, anti-abortion? Anti abortion, but pro universal health care? Pro 2nd amendment, and pro universal income? I've met all these people.