Societal needs, not reality, determine whether knowledge counts as accurate.

Evidence

What makes such knowledge accurate or inaccurate, bad, better, or worse, has to do mainly with the needs of the society in which that knowledge is produced. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 356

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with standpoint theory and Foucault’s power-knowledge; also relates to the reader’s earlier annotation work on feminist epistemology and the Lawrence moral panic case. — connects to: Knowledge out of proportion to real forces is invalid despite correctness. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 72; Quantification always depends on contested conventions, not neutral measurement. — Ève Chiapello, Financialisation of Valuation, 10; Power requires officially validated knowledge, not merely ignorance — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1566

Related

• Knowledge out of proportion to real forces is invalid despite correctness. (similarity 0.83)
• Knowledge of other cultures is judged by the needs of the producing society. (similarity 0.83)
• Power requires officially validated knowledge, not merely ignorance (similarity 0.83)