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Why not take in many sources and then average out what you hear?
Hahaha so naive
How so?
The wisdom of the crowds is eerily accurate when there are lots of independent samples. Keyword, independent. As soon as each of the samples are aware of each other, or, the number of independent samples proves to not actually be that high, it falls apart pretty quickly.
Weirdly enough, VSauce just put out a short on this a couple of days ago.
not weirdly enough - I saw the exact same video yesterday, assumed it had been in circulation for a while, and decided to steal his knowledge as my own and presented here like I'm a stats expert
Two independent sources have corroborated the same information. Thus it is factual.
I'm not sure I get your comment... I learned that crossing different official and reliable sources was the best way to get most of any information bit. Taking the overlapping information as the most reliable one.
Care to simplify what you're meaning, so even stupid me can understand?
Thank you !
news outlets doing their own reporting is a good thing, news outlets waiting to see what others report, or reporting news from a other outlet is a bad thing.
sometimes getting lots of different sources doesn't amount to much if they all come from the same source, or are reporting deliberately in-favour/contrarian to another news source
What if certain sources from other languages were followed?
Read their username