What we're really talking about here is boting any deviation from a tabula rasa appraisal of reality, then clustering that into an affiliation/quality, right?
I.e. Christians (as an averaged whole) can look at the same situation as a blank slate and have a statistically significant and consistently different perspective
As can scientists. As can maybe microbiologists and industrial chemists.
The point of the clustering isn't that the tags are pejorative, but that they're predictive metadata on any source's bias.
And often times that's currently unexposed. I see a post by echelon, but only by the content of that single post (and maybe some prior HN contact) can I reconstruct his typical perspectives.
I.e. Christians (as an averaged whole) can look at the same situation as a blank slate and have a statistically significant and consistently different perspective
As can scientists. As can maybe microbiologists and industrial chemists.
The point of the clustering isn't that the tags are pejorative, but that they're predictive metadata on any source's bias.
And often times that's currently unexposed. I see a post by echelon, but only by the content of that single post (and maybe some prior HN contact) can I reconstruct his typical perspectives.