[Sigia-l] biased taxonomies

[Sarah A. Rice]

I believe he means the latter.

For example, on Harpers.org, a sample of the taxonomy:

Human Beings
   Political Leaders
     Jesus Christ
       (supervises)
         Bush, George W.
         Ashcroft, Joh,
         Pope John Paul II
         Robertson, Pat
Supernatural Beings
   Gnomes
   Gods
   Monsters


At 11:59 AM 3/20/2005, Karl Fast wrote:
> > harpers.org has a wonderfully biased taxonomy. Any other examples?
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>Do you mean "inherently biased," where the bias is not deliberate
>but is present and, to a degree, unavoidable. The larger and broader
>the taxonomy the more likely it will be inherently biased. Dewey and
>Library of Congress schemes are well known to be biased along all
>sorts of dimensions.
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>Or do you mean "deliberately biased," where the designers were
>explicitly interested in creating a taxonomy invested with a
>particular view, perspective, ideology, etc?
>
>I suspect you mean more the latter.
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>--karl
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