Comment by qarl2
20 hours ago
No, my question is whether the per-story fact checking is equal, or much less.
I suspect it's much less. Do you know otherwise?
20 hours ago
No, my question is whether the per-story fact checking is equal, or much less.
I suspect it's much less. Do you know otherwise?
> my question is whether the per-story fact checking is equal, or much less.
How could a one man operation have the fact checking machinery of some big paper, eg the NYT? Of course it’s less.
Keep in mind that he usually posts multiple times per weekday.
No. You misunderstand my question. Again.
I want to know if the human effort, per story, is the same as other publications. Does Gruber make a real fact checking effort, or does he merely trust his gut?
The retraction post from Gruber details ways in which he tried to fact-check this, including confirming that his understanding was correct with Mr. Godier and even running a draft of the post by him to make sure he'd stated the "facts" that Godier presented him correctly.
I'm not really sure what you're implicitly expecting him to have done "better" here. Ask Godier for a signed affidavit? Not publish this until he could get a statement from Apple to get their side of the story? (Which is to say, not publish it at all because the chances of Apple giving anyone "their side" of something like this is essentially zero.)
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I make a real fact-checking effort. In this case, the developer (Godier) sent me a video of the app in action. It’s a real app. He couldn’t send me a TestFlight to run (he said) because TestFlight submissions are taking a week or longer to get approved.
Obviously what I did wasn’t enough, but trust me, I try.
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> The question is error per volume
> my question is whether the per-story fact checking is equal, or much less
Which is it?
My dear friend, both questions are asking about the same ratio, just using different language.