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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

When someone writes an article on any subject these days and gets it right it is the exception. In almost any reporting involving figures you can prove the reporting to be careless or even falsified by comparing one figure to another. Percentages given are wrong more often than not and quite often there are impossible mathematical absurdities such as “200 percent LESS”.

I would expect that Keynes himself would probably not even recognize what is presented as “Keynesian” economics today.

In short the average twelve year old who has not yet been taught how to be an idiot could probably do a better job of reporting than most so-called journalists.


10 posted on 01/22/2014 11:37:45 AM PST by RipSawyer (The TREE currently falling on you actually IS worse than a Bush.)
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To: RipSawyer

The innumeracy in the media really bugs me too. The “journalists” are trained to construct a plausible ‘reality’, and fit their “narrative” to their worldview. In their view, there are no objective “facts” — just “narratives”. That’s quite easy to do with words — not so easy to do with numbers.


12 posted on 01/22/2014 1:50:34 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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