ots? Are we witnessing an epidemic of police brutality, or the spinning of a false media narrative? Are claims of voter fraud a farce, or is it an actual concern? Do economists believe school vouchers are a good idea or not? What you think may depend on what data you have been presented with lately — and how it’s beenWe hear a lot about the need for facts and data in finding the truth, but we hear much less about how partisan media outlets can take the very same facts and data to spin vastly...
Here are some powerful examples of how slant, bias, and perhaps hidden agendas lead to radically different conclusions from the same data.Some on the left claimed that reports of rioting, arson, looting, and violence at recent protests in U.S. cities were not representative of the majority of anti-police brutality protesters. To back this up, they pointed to a study that purportedly foundThis same information was framed in vastly different ways by partisan media.
something very different: “Just .0004% of the total number of black suspects arrested by police are shot.” That’s because the left and right have interpreted the same data on police shootings of black Americans in very different ways., right-wing commentators say the very same data shows no such racist epidemic.