bias
Original: bias on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with flame-like orange hair (speech bubble): I am NOT biased. I am prepared to believe any side of any argument.
[A woman with brown hair in a yellow shirt stands beside him, listening.]
Panel 2:
Man with orange hair (speech bubble): That said I do have certain standards for evidence.
[Black caption box bridging the bottom of Panels 1 and 3:]
PEOPLE WHO DON'T AGREE WITH ME MUST PROVIDE AT LEAST SIX FIFTY-YEAR LONGITUDINAL STUDIES, WITH 10,000 PARTICIPANTS PER STUDY, WITH EACH STUDY COMPLETED IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS.
[Black caption box bridging the bottom of Panels 2 and 4:]
PEOPLE WHO DO AGREE WITH ME MUST PROVIDE THE HEADLINE FROM A TABLOID ARTICLE, OR A CARTOON IN WHICH THE PEOPLE I DISLIKE ARE DEPICTED AS PIGS WITH FANGS.
Panel 5:
Woman with brown hair (speech bubble): You don't understand what bias is.
Panel 6:
Man with orange hair (speech bubble): That's because I'm the only one who never experiences it.
Votey:
[A pig with fangs, drawn in a crude cartoon style.] Oink! Hiss!
Caption (handwritten): People who don't like socks with sandals
Man with flame-like orange hair (speech bubble): I am NOT biased. I am prepared to believe any side of any argument.
[A woman with brown hair in a yellow shirt stands beside him, listening.]
Panel 2:
Man with orange hair (speech bubble): That said I do have certain standards for evidence.
[Black caption box bridging the bottom of Panels 1 and 3:]
PEOPLE WHO DON'T AGREE WITH ME MUST PROVIDE AT LEAST SIX FIFTY-YEAR LONGITUDINAL STUDIES, WITH 10,000 PARTICIPANTS PER STUDY, WITH EACH STUDY COMPLETED IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS.
[Black caption box bridging the bottom of Panels 2 and 4:]
PEOPLE WHO DO AGREE WITH ME MUST PROVIDE THE HEADLINE FROM A TABLOID ARTICLE, OR A CARTOON IN WHICH THE PEOPLE I DISLIKE ARE DEPICTED AS PIGS WITH FANGS.
Panel 5:
Woman with brown hair (speech bubble): You don't understand what bias is.
Panel 6:
Man with orange hair (speech bubble): That's because I'm the only one who never experiences it.
Votey:
[A pig with fangs, drawn in a crude cartoon style.] Oink! Hiss!
Caption (handwritten): People who don't like socks with sandals
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A man with flame-like orange hair talks to a woman with brown hair in a yellow shirt. He declares: "I am NOT biased. I am prepared to believe any side of any argument." then adds, "That said I do have certain standards for evidence." Two black caption boxes run along the bottom of the panels spelling out his double standard. For people who DON'T agree with him: "at least six fifty-year longitudinal studies, with 10,000 participants per study, with each study completed in the last six months." For people who DO agree with him: "the headline from a tabloid article, or a cartoon in which the people I dislike are depicted as pigs with fangs." The woman says, "You don't understand what bias is." The man replies serenely, "That's because I'm the only one who never experiences it." Votey (aftercomic): a crudely drawn cartoon pig with fangs snarls "Oink! Hiss!" labeled with the handwritten caption "People who don't like socks with sandals" — literalizing the man's "cartoon depicting people I dislike as pigs with fangs."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.