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[inahandbasket]

In a survey of adult American internet users...
"More than two-thirds of people surveyed also said they believed online travel sites are required by law to offer the lowest airline prices possible." (link)

Wow people in this country are stupid.

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[komos.livejournal.com]

I like debunking stuff. ^_^

[axessdenyd.livejournal.com]

Stuff like the lies told by the liberal media?

[komos.livejournal.com]

I'm an equal opportunity debunker.

[axessdenyd.livejournal.com]

That's reassuring.

I dislike people who only want to debunk the other side.

[komos.livejournal.com]

There's a great deal of "information" floating around that amounts to little more than opinion with a spin. It's one of the unfortunate consequences of having as much media as we do available. Both sides play the game to effect.

I googled the Annenberg study. The full results are here. I have not had a chance to give them more than a cursory review.

[axessdenyd.livejournal.com]

We can agree on that.

I've just had enough of the surveys that prove that [making numbers up, like 74.6% of all statistics] "42% of American high school students can't find England on a map". Everyone involved knows that this is untrue, but when they report it, they never mention that people might lie on the test just for fun or that other factors might be involved.

[komos.livejournal.com]

My personal favorites were conducted in the 70's and the numbers are still being kicked around as "God's Honest Truth" despite more recent studies that utterly disprove them.

[axessdenyd.livejournal.com]

Yes, I love statistics.

According to the Brady Foundation for Gun Control (or whatever they're called now), X number of children are killed by guns every year. This number includes anyone below 21 years old, and it doesn't matter whther it is suicide, negligent discharge, gang violence, or the justified shooting of a gang member/drug dealer by the police.

According to the NRA, X is a much, much lower number. They consider a child to be anyone under 14 years old (and I don't rememeber the other specifics of what they count, but it was different).

I do tend to side with the NRA's stance on this, but I think that they are also trying to trick you.