{"id":30060,"date":"2017-01-18T11:16:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T16:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30060"},"modified":"2017-01-18T11:16:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T16:16:40","slug":"how-to-lie-with-statistics-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30060","title":{"rendered":"How To Lie With Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mainstream media has not yet realized that they have been revealed as dishonest and misleading. They are still at it. A story posted yesterday in The Daily Caller<\/a> illustrates that point.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Two polls released Tuesday \u2014 one from ABC<\/a> and a second from CNN<\/a> \u2014 tout Donald Trump<\/a> as being the most unfavorable incoming president in modern history \u2014 yet on second look, the data\u00a0is clearly boosted by the pollers\u2019 decision to oversample Democrats<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Gallup<\/a>, 28 percent<\/a> of Americans identify themselves as a Republican, while 25 percent identify as a Democrat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

ABC\u2019s poll sampled 1,005<\/a> adults across the nation. However, partisan breakdown shows that only 23 percent of\u00a0participants identified as Republican.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conversely<\/a>, 31 percent of participants identified as Democrats and 37 percent as independent, while nine percent did not answer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Similarly, CNN\u2019s poll also featured an eight-point partisanship gap<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of the 1,000 adults taking part in the Atlanta<\/a>-based news network\u2019s poll, 32 percent claimed to be Democrats, 24 percent claimed to be Republicans and the remaining 44 percent claimed to be \u201cindependents or members of another party.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I they had chosen their samples according to the actual statistics on party affiliation, I suspect they might have gotten a different result. However, they did get the result they wanted so that they could report it as news.<\/p>\n

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The mainstream media has not yet realized that they have been revealed as dishonest and misleading. They are still at it. A story posted yesterday in The Daily Caller illustrates that point. The article reports: Two polls released Tuesday \u2014 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1344,712,3357,3415],"class_list":["post-30060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cnn","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-donald-trump","tag-republican-party-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30061,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060\/revisions\/30061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}