Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Dishonest Fox News Charts
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Fox is trying to mislead its viewers on the unemployment rate. Again.
On Monday, Fox News displayed a chart illustrating changes to the unemployment rate during 2011
The pattern of dishonesty is alarming.
A few weeks ago, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics first reported that the unemployment rate had dropped to 8.6 percent in November -- the lowest rate in more than 2 years -- a Fox News graphic rounded up to 9 percent.
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Who cares? The "real" rate is probably in the 20's so are we arguing over how much to manipulate the data? Or who manipulates it more?
ReplyDeleteDoesn't make any difference. True unemployment is at least 20%
ReplyDeleteDo you really think that it is such an amazing twist to have the graph with a mistake like that, intentional or otherwise? Sure it looks great on the non-fox graph with the tight range. That .4% looks like a huge change! Using that tight a range to exaggerate the drop and not having the numbers over the data points is just as bad as the error on the Fox one, IMO, because most sheeple will just say WOW look how much it dropped without looking at the actual numbers.
ReplyDeleteIt's considered bad form in statistics to plot using a limited y-axis range as it exaggerates effects and suggests significant change when it likely does not exist. If there were no numbers on the chart, I would be more suspicious of fraudulent presentation. But the numbers make the graphing error clear within the chart.
Typical of the misinformation and slanted reporting of Fox. They do their best to always make Obama/Democrats look worse than they are and to sugar coat the Republican circus. If they were really objective then they would get down on both sides of the aisle that have earned a 3% approval rating for doing a good job.
ReplyDeleteHaha faux news. You watch that garbage you get what you deserve. True that real unemployment is 20%.
ReplyDeleteMight have been Samuel Clemmons who said " there's lies , there's damn lies and then there's Statistics " Oh well, it's foxxy news so what do we expect , eh ?
ReplyDeleteOk, let's assume Fox is every bit on the right as you report it to be. That leaves NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN and PBS on the left. The problem you have with FOX is that your long standing monologue is now a dialogue.
ReplyDeleteLooks more like an error than anything intentional. Likewise, the comparison graph bottoms out at 8.5% as opposed to 8% which exagerates the same figures.
ReplyDeleteFigures never lie but liars figure.
As mention realy unemployment is much higher. This is purely people who are receiving unemployment benefits. Any self employed people are exempt. People who have had massive pay cuts or hours reduced. This number going down is meaningless without comparing the other data.
those two charts have the exact same info. look at just the numbers from month to month and they are the same
ReplyDeleteYou're a douche bag liberal squabbling over who's numbers are more honest when none of them are. Obama sucks dude.
ReplyDeleteHeh, Its over 9% without a doubt. These polls are often wrong and cannot be accurate due to the impossibility to comple accurate data on a weekly basis. So stop trying to make Fax news look bad because it makes you look like a fuck tard.
ReplyDeleteIf it makes no difference, as some of you suggest, then why does Fox need to lie about it?
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