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This doesn't seem very NPOV. From what I think of as a sane point of view, the issue is that online research is easier to access and therefore provide more benefit to other researchers, who reward their publishers by citing them more. This page spins this as a "failure" and paints as victims the researchers and journals who selfishly hoard their work instead of putting it online as they should.

I'd edit the article, but I'm clearly not in a very NPOV mood!

Kragen Sitaker 05:09, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

As the author of the original article in Lancet on the FUTON Bias I dispute that the summary in Misplaced Pages is not reasonably neutral or that my original paper is biased in the way Kragen suggests. He certainly was not in a NPOV mood when he wrote this comment and should have kept his mouth shut. Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

Reinhard Wentz, London 17.03.2006 sleuthmedical@yahoo.com

Irony is so delicious. FUTON biased reearch used to refute concept of FUTON bias. Removing dispute flag.--Cberlet 14:02, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Bias Against Books?

Do Misplaced Pages editors have a bias against books? It seems that way to me, but maybe that is because I live very near a major city free library, and I have a lot of books myself. I have been using older books in articles about early Philadelphia men, buildings, and institutions. I see plenty of inline citations for online sources, and only a few for books.

Are there any statistics on citations here by source?--DThomsen8 (talk) 20:08, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Wealth bias

Does anyone know if this effect harms academics (or other people) in developing countries more than in wealthy countries? I'm asking because of the effects on Misplaced Pages: your favorite web search engine will find information online about even the most unimportant American school or tiny medical office, but finding information about very large high schools or regional hospitals in developing countries can be quite difficult. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:13, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Online research versus offline research

The suggestion that 'online research is becoming easier and less time consuming than offline research' is absurd, sorry, misleading. Online research is just incomplete research, pure and simple. Such a contentious statement, without reference of course, has no place in this WP article on Futon Bias. I will delete that suggestion asap. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sleuth21 (talk • contribs) 18:58, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

• I think the edit is reasonable, but the old text wasn't nearly as terrible as you make it out to be. Protonk (talk) 19:58, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
  • Thank you and point well taken. The term 'absurd' was too strong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sleuth21 (talk • contribs) 10:01, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Reality Bias

We suffer from reality bias. People are biased towards doing what is possible for them to do in reality and biased against doing what is impossible for them to do. Reality bias takes many forms. Poor academics in poor countries have "poverty bias," in that they are biased against using the resources of wealthy think tanks in their research, since such think tanks are inaccessible to them. "My mother's basement bias" is another serious bias affecting Misplaced Pages editors who are confined to their mothers' basements out on the windy steppes of Idaho where great university libraries are inaccessible to them. And so on. We should do all we can to expunge reality bias from a Misplaced Pages of otherwise unsullied purity. —Blanchette (talk) 21:21, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

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