A word used to describe something that's only good because it's popular, just like the word "overrated". When someone listens to a very popular song and says they're into the entire style, they're based.
"that music is so based"
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The systematic editorial skews inherent to Wikipedia and similar wikis, stemming not from malicious intent but from the inherent characteristics of its volunteer base and collaborative process. Key biases include: systemic bias (over-representation of topics popular among young, tech-savvy, English-speaking Western males), citation bias (over-reliance on sources that are digital and in English), conflict-of-interest bias (covert editing by PR firms and political operatives), and consensus bias (controversial truths that challenge established narratives are often edited out in favor of bland, "settled" accounts that won't provoke edit wars). Wikipedia's biases are the map of the world, drawn by a specific, non-representative cartographers' guild.
Example: The Wikipedia article for a major video game franchise is detailed, meticulously sourced, and updated hourly. The article for a crucial Indigenous agricultural technique, equally significant to human culture, is a stub or non-existent. This reflects the Biases of Wiki: the contributor base writes passionately about its hobbies, while crucial indigenous knowledge languishes due to a lack of editors from that community.
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Example: In mainstream political commentary, a politician's bias towards protecting Wall Street is framed as "pragmatic realism," while a activist's bias towards wealth redistribution is framed as "ideological extremism." This is the operation of biases of biases—the rules that determine which perspectives are allowed to be "objective" and which must wear the label of bias.
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Biases about Biases Example: A viewer immediately dismisses a documentary on climate change because "It's from Netflix, and Netflix has a woke bias." This is not an analysis of the film's evidence, but the application of a bias about bias—a canned ideological shortcut that prevents any actual evaluation of content.
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The slang form of "based in the bible".
In the example below, saying to repealing the 19th is a biblically sound argument; therefore, it is "based"
The slang form of "based in the bible".
In the example below, saying to repealing the 19th is a biblically sound argument; therefore, it is "based"
"Repeal the 19th" "Based"
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