[Sigia-l] biased taxonomies

[Karl Fast]

> harpers.org has a wonderfully biased taxonomy. Any other examples?

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.

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.





--karl
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