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I like your explanation, but it seems you're arguing in favor of reading "The American Truth", since it will give you both perspectives if you're currently only reading blue-supremacist newspapers?

And you'll be fine as long as you recognize the biases on both sides and verify claims.

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Not really, because the blue-supremacist newspapers won't publish any of the other perspectives - they're also going to say that the blue man cannot survive in a society with orange people. You won't hear any of the stories where things are fine.

The problem with p-hacking is you need to honestly report the negative results too, not that you need to also find "statistically significant" results reporting the opposite effect.

But yes, if you consciously make an effort to find extremist sources from all possible points of view (and in the real world, that's rarely the same as "both points of view"), and if you make a point of reading them all critically and skeptically, then that is likely to get you a more balanced perspective about things on the margins. Can you find a story about life as a black teacher in a majority-white school published by a black supremacist/separatist organization?

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