(Fact Check) Is Trump Removing LGBTQ from the Census?
We were asked by a reader if President Donald Trump is removing LGBTQ questions from the upcoming census. On March 28th, several media outlets reported that…
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The White House Wouldn’t Post Trump Staffers’ Financial Disclosures. So We Did.
by Ariana Tobin and Derek Kravitz ProPublica, April 1, 2017, 11:38 a.m. In a remarkable Friday night news dump, the Trump administration made dozens of…
Why are some people more gullible than others?
Lies, pranks and April Fool’s Day jokes show how gullible we can sometimes be. from http://www.shutterstock.com Joseph Paul Forgas, UNSW Homo sapiens is probably an…
Daily Source Bias Check: Peterson Foundation
LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes)….
Palmer Report Republishes Fake Daily News Bin Story Against Media Bias Fact Check
For some mysterious reason Bill Palmer of the Palmer Report and the Daily News Bin has decided to republish, a false report about Media Bias Fact Check…
The seven deadly sins of statistical misinterpretation, and how to avoid them
Where are the error bars? Shutterstock Winnifred Louis, The University of Queensland and Cassandra Chapman, The University of Queensland Statistics is a useful tool for…
Mike Cernovich appears on 60 Minutes: Here is our rating of Danger and Play
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibits any of the following: extreme bias, overt propaganda, poor or no sourcing to credible information and/or is fake news….
A 2-for-1 for Racists: Post Hateful Fliers, and Revel in the News Coverage
by Ken Schwencke ProPublica, March 24, 2017, 8 a.m. The Houston man laid out the details of his triumphant plan during a podcast last July:…
Why polls seem to struggle to get it right – on elections and everything else
Where are the people really going? kewl/flickr, CC BY Daniel Alexander, Drake University I am a professor of mathematics, so my ears perk up when I…
We Fact-Checked Lawmakers’ Letters to Constituents on Health Care
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, March 22, 2017, 5 a.m. When Louisiana resident Andrea Mongler wrote to her senator, Bill Cassidy, in support of the Affordable…