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"science and related fields " But we are talking about economics, and republican groups like fox news eat it up. My favorite example is the 2011 chart distort
by niggler 13y ago
"science and related fields "
But we are talking about economics, and republican groups like fox news eat it up.
My favorite example is the 2011 chart distorting the display of the unemployment rate:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/12/12/today-in-dishonest-fox-news-charts/185162 http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/12/12/today-in-dishonest-f...
- carbocation 13y agoFox News is not in the business of science. I used the term "related fields" as a euphemism for Econ and Psych because I didn't want to get drawn into a demarcation debate. Wherever the line is drawn, the dishonesty of some random Fox News chart is not related to the honesty or dishonesty of actual scientific research. The much bigger problem in science is error.
- niggler 13y ago" didn't want to get drawn into a demarcation debate." Econ and Psych really do lie in a gray area, and by avoid the demarcation debate you completely miss the relevance of the issue at hand. If policy makers weren't using this study to justify more austerity, then we probably wouldn't have such a prolonged discussion.
- jerf 13y agoDistorting the truth about the state of the economy is not something confined to one partisan side, and the need for data transparency extends beyond economics regardless.
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