Timeline for How do historians deal with Historical Bias?
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| Oct 14, 2019 at 20:36 | history | edited | AllInOne | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 5, 2017 at 5:57 | comment | added | Rolen Koh | @Oldcat: I think you are deliberately wrong in suggesting this "Often History is written by the losers". If it was true then Winston Churchill is bigger villain of WW2 than Hitler. Because of Churchill's deliberate policies 2-5 million people died in Bengal famine of 1943 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943) | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 5:54 | comment | added | Rolen Koh | This is really great answer. Even modern day historians have their own biases in interpreting historical events and records and it becomes even more complex when conflicting documents are there. | |
| Jan 28, 2016 at 21:09 | history | edited | user2875474 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2014 at 0:25 | comment | added | Oldcat | Often History is written by the losers. For instance, late Republican Rome was written down by sympathizers of the defeated Senatorial class, and it suited Augustus Caesar to go along with it. | |
| Jan 8, 2014 at 1:48 | comment | added | NotVonKaiser | I'm still not going to upvote this (though I did not originaly downvote this) because SE is about coming up with answers to questions that people other than the asker can later review and find out about. Please remove the bit at the beginning or else find a way to incorporate it into the text, and please please remove the whining about downvotes. | |
| Jan 7, 2014 at 3:51 | comment | added | user2590 | +1 for your second try, because I think your basic thrust, "...then historians can try to piece together an understanding of what really happened..." is good. Still " too long perhaps to be able to question anyone alive who was present at that time" is not really correct. Discussing the Vietnam War today is History, but we can gather plenty of eyewitness accounts from veterans. And "bias cannot be overcome to find the truth" is a bit too bleak, as LR has remarked. | |
| Oct 27, 2013 at 19:04 | comment | added | user2875474 | @ Lennart Regebro , thanks for the vote of confidence, I might have misinterpreted the question when answering it - I treated getting the truth and managing bias as the same. Hence the mangled answer. :) | |
| Oct 27, 2013 at 19:02 | comment | added | user2875474 | @ LateralFractal, balanced mama, thanks for your constructive suggestions - the downvotes without a justification felt quite bad. I agree my reply could be edited better, will get round to it eventually, | |
| Oct 23, 2013 at 17:41 | comment | added | balanced mama | Dealing with bias is different from being able to get to the truth despite the bias. As I understand it, you are saying, "while a Historian may acknowledge and be aware of an existing bias, an actual truth cannot be arrived at anyway in many cases." If this sums up your point, I'd say the downvote is uncalled for, except that a little editing may add clarity. | |
| Oct 14, 2013 at 23:35 | comment | added | LateralFractal | I haven't downvoted, but I think this answer needs to be seriously condensed. I'm finding it hard to tease out the key points you trying to make. | |
| S Oct 14, 2013 at 22:26 | history | edited | user2875474 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Oct 14, 2013 at 22:26 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 14, 2013 at 20:42 | comment | added | Joe | Seconding user2875474's request: if you downvote this (or anything else), leave a comment why. | |
| Oct 14, 2013 at 18:02 | comment | added | Lennart Regebro | And you can deal with bias even without opposing sources. It's harder, but doable. So historians do deal with bias. Often badly but that's another issue. :-) But I won't give you a -1 I don't want to discourage you from continuing on the site. | |
| Oct 14, 2013 at 17:41 | history | edited | user2875474 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
I rewrote this
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| Oct 14, 2013 at 9:03 | comment | added | Sardathrion - against SE abuse | -1. Historians do deal with bias all the time. This is just plain wrong speculations. | |
| Oct 14, 2013 at 7:33 | history | answered | user2875474 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |