Quillette Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Skews Right

Reliability: Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for Quillette according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Bias: 9.27

Reliability: 37.53

Bias scores for articles and shows are on a scale of -42 to +42, with higher negative scores being more left, higher positive scores being more right, and scores closer to zero being minimally biased, equally balanced, or exhibiting a centrist bias.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 36 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-36 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and/or analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between content pieces.

Panels of analysts from Ad Fontes Media regularly review representative sample content to rate it for reliability and bias. Each panel of analysts comprises one left-leaning, one right-leaning, and one center-leaning analyst.

The team considers a variety of factors when rating content. To determine the bias score of a piece of content, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting from other sources on the same topic. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the source’s overall bias score.

To determine its reliability score, we consider the content’s veracity, expression, its title/headline, and graphics. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the source’s overall reliability score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the horizontal axis of the Media Bias Chart®️, ranges from most extreme left to middle to most extreme right. The reliability rating, demonstrated on the chart’s vertical axis, rates sources on a scale from original fact reporting to analysis, opinion, selective/incomplete, misleading, and inaccurate/fabricated information.

Individual Content Sample Scores

These are the most recent content samples that Ad Fontes Media analysts have rated for this source.

Content Sample URL Bias Reliability
We’ve Known It for Years: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs Don’t Work8.3333.33
XY Athletes in Women’s Olympic Boxing: The Paris 2024 Controversy Explained2.6742.33
The Puzzle of Generational Politics7.037.0
Aliens...Again!0.036.0
I Asked Thousands of Biologists When Life Begins. The Answer Wasn't Popular12.036.0
Leaving Portland0.043.0
Modern Europe and the Enlightenment—A Review-3.6736.0
Sorry, Demi Lovato: You Can’t Fight Sexism by Opting Out of Womanhood-11.6733.33
The Sad Truth About Traditional Environmentalism3.6733.67
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Paradox of Choice-1.3336.33
In Defense of the Universal Values of Science3.3341.0
Winners and Losers: The Global Economy After COVID1.6746.33
Understanding the Unidentified0.046.33
The Death of Political Cartooning—And Why It Matters – Quillette6.3346.0
Social-Media Oligopolists Are the New Railroad Barons. It’s Time for Washington to Treat Them Accordingly – Quillette-2.3342.0
The Problem with Kinship Care-4.6738.67
Does Racism Explain Black Disadvantage?0.6742.0
Liberalism—Decline or Survival19.6730.0
Workers vs. Wokeness at Smith College: Campus Social Justice as a Luxury Good11.6740.67
A Europe Divided and Unfree-143.33
Can Public Shaming be Useful?4.3339.0
The Crimes of the Red Emperor2.3342.0
How to Fight the Enemies of Academic Freedom14.3325.67
Look Who’s Talking About Educational Equity19.030.67
The Problems with Discrimination Research in Medicine12.6730.67