I’ve gone through the whole site, and it does give little or no rationale for the supposed facts and figures they brought up; if there’s a citation, it’s questionable, and good God, people are still falling for all the bullshit over there.
Shit like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Philippines/comments/14frh19/fellow_filipinos_whats_your_opinion_on_this/
Editorially, we cannot find evidence of any overt political opinions being offered. This is a straight-up data-driven website with minimal bias. However, they sometimes utilize controversial sources such as data from Richard Lynn, who calculated IQ by country. His study has been accused of being racially biased.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/world-population-review/
I strongly recommend using original sources for citing information, such as the actual World Health Organization site, and the CIA World Factbook, which contains some at-a-glance figures per country.
I think it’s worth remembering that each time some sort of study result is published by media, you should always look at the methodology and the source of data. In the case of that review stating that Filipinos were racist, they state that it was from two surveys. One was from the Washington Post in 2013 and the other from Business Tech in 2016. However these two publications were actually citing studies done rather than having done it themselves. It’s worth noting that the article from WaPo actually cites the published study where their data came from but there have been issues found due to translation issues . Now, I’m not sure if the data from World Population Review updated their scores to reflect this, but again, it’s important to look at the sources where the data is sourced from. That being said, the data for this study is a bit more credible as it nevertheless went through some academic rigor. I wish I could see the raw data for this study though.
I’d largely ignore the results of the study cited in the Business Tech article as this was not peer reviewed to the best of my knowledge. It’s also a bit more loose in defining how racist a country is (if a person has seen/experienced racism.) I’m not sure if the study itself defined racism for the survey respondents, but my experience with most non-academic firms, they tend to miss out on a lot of details that would be considered standard practice for academic institutions.
Lol. Unfortunately it’s too easy now to find a site that would show “facts” that agree with your narrative.
What are some good (and objective) sites to replace them? Maybe we can make a compilation of those sites here?
