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As a general rule I never trust a news outlet to accurately summarize a supreme court opinion.

• infogulch 6y ago
  Neither do I, but I didn't have the time to spend hours in a deep-dive to read the court opinion directly. So given the choice between 1: Say nothing, which is known to not spread lies but has no potential to help anyone, and 2: Extend the article's potential misrepresentation by repeating it as fact, instead I chose option 3: Include my confidence interval in my comment explicitly which enables readers such as yourself to make their own judgment call, but which opens me up to obvious "criticism" by people who are so thrown off by the straightforwardness of this strategy that they can't help themselves from repeating the clearly stated choice while pinning it with their own judgement. Think of it like this: my comment is a function with a parameter for "trust of this article's summary" for which I trust my reader to provide a value that works well for them, and in turn I give them a comment that they can evaluate themselves. I hope more people choose option 3, but I can sympathize with why they wouldn't. :)