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there's plenty of public information about Eberhard / Tarpenning involvement in founding Tesla. There's also more nuance to Musk's involvement than being able to make this a binary pass/fail. Your test is only testing for bias for or against Musk. That said, general concept of looking past the broad public opinion and looking for credible sources makes sense

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They said they ask a question analogous to asking about founding Tesla, not that actual question. They are just using that as an example to not state the actual question they ask.

Indeed but the idea that this is a "cope" is interesting nonetheless.

>Your test is only testing for bias for or against [I'm adapting here] you.

I think this raises the question of what reasoning beyond Doxa entails. Can you make up for one's injustice without putting alignment into the frying pan? "It depends" is the right answer. However, what is the shape of the boundary between the two ?

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