Cherrypicking
Cherrypicking 101
Cherrypicking 101
The BBC edited Trump quotes, from an hour apart, to make it appear he said something he did not say. The BBC Director General and the BBC News CEO have now both resigned.
Famous pollster who calls himself an “honest pollster” is not honest.
Consumption per person has declined since the 1980s, was stable for a while, and now, a majority of Americans view even drinking in moderation as bad for health.
The claim that 58% of recent graduate have no job is false, and comes about from a biased sample used in the survey.
Photos of people sunbathing are presented as an illustration of lazy American workers, cutting work. But that is not what the photos show – in fact, its college students just after the spring semester ended.
An online meme notes that the % of “married”, “homeowners” is low. It is a real decline but they’ve combined 2 independent variables to make it look worse.
Another propaganda poster that is sort of embarrassing.
The way this chart is constructed, it makes it look like all the major economies are expanding their carbon emissions. But they are not.
TIME Magazine does its usual “Top 100” thing and it’s the usual nonsense and irrelevant selection process. I covered this in depth in 2023.