Researchers Tackle the Question, Is Wikipedia Biased?
Are the volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia entries capable of maintaining a neutral point of view on easily skewed topics like politics and history?Shane Greenstein, a professor of management and strategy at the Kellogg School of Management; and Feng Zhu, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California, have found that the online encyclopedia has become more neutral in the last decade.
Are the volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia entries capable of maintaining a neutral point of view on easily skewed topics like politics and history?
Shane Greenstein, a professor of management and strategy at the Kellogg School of Management; and Feng Zhu, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California, have found that the online encyclopedia has become more neutral in the last decade.
According to an article on the Kellog school website, the professors conducted a study based on the same formula that’s used for testing the political slant of printed newspapers.
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