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re: Politifact in action. Trump's 100% true statement rated mostly false
Posted on 2/26/17 at 7:27 am to Eighteen
Posted on 2/26/17 at 7:27 am to Eighteen
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You're missing the point. Politifact isnt supposed to be rating context.
Uhhh. Context is the whole point of fact checking.....To provide broader context for bull shite figures politicians come up with. You can almost always find a way that a number is technically correct from some tortured perspective.
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Posted on 2/26/17 at 7:29 am to a want
The issue isn't that they provided context. It's that they gave it a mostly false rating based on context when the claim was literally and totally true. Rate it true and then caveat the shite out of it.
Posted on 2/26/17 at 7:31 am to a want
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Uhhh. Context is the whole point of fact checking.....To provide broader context for bull shite figures politicians come up with. You can almost always find a way that a number is technically correct from some tortured perspective.
"You can keep your doctor!"
"Mostly True"
"The doctor you have seen previously may or may not be the one you will report to within further measures, but that Doctor has the same percentage of being the one you will report to as any other potential one in the future."
This post was edited on 2/26/17 at 7:32 am
Posted on 2/26/17 at 9:13 am to a want
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You can almost always find a way that a number is technically correct from some tortured perspective.
There was a small book written about this many years ago for Stats 101 classes..."How to lie with statistics." We know Trump has read at least one book.
This post was edited on 2/26/17 at 9:33 am
Posted on 2/26/17 at 9:15 am to a want
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Uhhh. Context is the whole point of fact checking.....To provide broader context for bull shite figures politicians come up with. You can almost always find a way that a number is technically correct from some tortured perspective.
Is his claim that the debt went down by $12 billion in his first month in office true? If so then the claim should be "Mostly True" with the article, and context, explaining why that number is meaningless.
Posted on 2/26/17 at 9:35 am to a want
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The independent!!
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