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Funny to look back at this now: https://nyti.ms/2vtd04V https://nyti.ms/2vtd04V NYT on 24 August 2017: "The Flatiron School in New York may have discovered one
by k8si 9y ago
Funny to look back at this now: https://nyti.ms/2vtd04V https://nyti.ms/2vtd04V
NYT on 24 August 2017: "The Flatiron School in New York may have discovered one path. Founded in 2012, Flatiron has a single campus in downtown Manhattan and its main offering is a 15-week immersive coding program with a $15,000 price tag. More than 95 percent of its 1,000 graduates there have landed coding jobs."
two months later
NY AG, 17 October 2017: "However, Flatiron did not disclose clearly and conspicuously that the 98.5% employment rate included not only full time salaried employees but also apprentices, contract employees and self-employed freelance workers, some who were employed for less than twelve weeks. Similarly, Flatiron failed to clearly and conspicuously disclose that its $74,447 average salary claim included full time employed graduates only, which represent only 58% of classroom graduates and 39% of online graduates."
- rdiddly 9y agoMakes the Times look pretty stupid and/or like shills either unwitting or paid!
- zachwood 9y agoOr perhaps, as seen directly in the quote "Flatiron did not disclose clearly and conspicuously...".
- WoodenChair 9y agoI don't know why you're being downvoted. The epitome of so-called "fake news" is a newspaper reprinting stats a private corporation provides it in a matter-of-fact tone as the Times did here. Instead of writing, "More than 95 percent of its 1,000 graduates there have landed coding jobs." The Times should've written "Flatiron claims more than 95 percent of its 1,000 graduates there have landed coding jobs." Those two words Flatiron claims are the difference between reporting and restating as fact.
- andrestan 9y agoIn fairness to the Times I wouldn't call this fake news; just slightly sloppy reporting. Fake news implies that it's deliberately misleading which this doesn't appear to be. They are simply repeating claims.
- topgunsarg 9y agoFlatiron was going around parading themselves as the only coding school to get their job statistics audited by a third party, so I don't necessarily blame the NYT for believing their claims. Ironic that the only audited school is now the one having issues with misleading statistics.
- amcooper 9y agoWe have become inured to the Times's anti-journalistic practice of "simply repeating claims" for years now, but it's still a problem worth pointing out.