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Showing posts with label We Are Journalists Not Social Scientists. Show all posts
Sunday, February 2, 2020

PolitiFact updates its website, makes "Corrections and Updates" even harder to find (Updated: Fixed!)

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Over the years we've enjoyed poking fun at PolitiFact's haphazard observance of its policy on corrections. Aside from simply not doi...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

PolitiFact ratings aren't scientific--or are they?

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We stand bemused by PolitiFact's attempt to straddle the fence regarding its aggregated "Truth-O-Meter" ratings. On the one ...
Friday, November 10, 2017

'Not a lot of reader confusion' VI

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PolitiFact editor Angie Drobnic Holan has claimed she does not notice much reader confusion regarding the interpretation of PolitiFact's...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

"There's not a lot of reader confusion" Update 2

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The Houston Chronicle joins those suffering confusion over the significance of PolitiFact's "report cards." The New York T...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Rolling Stone jumps on PolitiFact's junk science bandwagon

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Rolling Stone has joined The New York Times in promoting PolitiFact's unscientific ratings of politicians' truthfulness. PolitiF...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

Angie Drobnic Holan and the Times do some fact-chucking

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Does PolitiFact accuse politicians of lying? In a Dec. 7, 2015 review of a research paper I published over at Zebra Fact Check , I assured...
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Sunday, April 12, 2015

Are PolitiFact's "report cards" misleading?

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One of our recurrent themes at PolitiFact Bias concerns the misleading nature of PolitiFact's "report cards." PolitiFact admit...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

"The Heart of PolitiFact"

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We find it fundamentally dishonest the way PolitiFact treats its trademark "Truth-O-Meter" as though it's some sort of machine...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

More PolitiPundit

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We've written before about (former PolitiFact editor) Bill Adair's desire to have it both ways with regard to PolitiFact's ratin...
Monday, October 28, 2013

PolitiFact: We're not social scientists, but you sure can tell plenty about a candidate from our 'candidate report cards'

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PFB editor Jeff D. took notice that new PolitiFact editor Angie Drobnic Holan recently affirmed PolitiFact's minimalist admission of it...
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Sunday, June 2, 2013

PolitiFact's Paradoxical Positions: The Conflicting Claims of Bill Adair

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A press release for a study by George Mason University ( CMPA ) last week garnered wide attention, though, hilariously, for the wrong reason...