statistics can be abuse to convince people of one thing when actually another is going on. have u seen any abuse of statistics?
2006-09-11 12:38:25 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
well you can get statistics to back up anything at all. you would have to define abuse to get more specific
2006-09-11 12:40:10 · answer #1 · answered by ridr90 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The media can take an unknown accident like maybe a car hijacking in Baghdad and blow it so out of proportion that they make it seem about a hundred people died and the whole city was blacked out. Really, there are a lot of things going on at once, but the media will take one that has the most potential, the one with the most vague facts, and blow it out of proportion. They might even downplay a big accident so sometimes people are unaware of what is happening. Ask anybody who's been stationed in Iraq or Afghanistan or anywhere over there and they will tell you, do not depend on the media. Your best bet would be to find somebody who is in the action, who is a dependable person, to give you the news. CNN has been known to crop pictures or add more things to pictures to make the pictures more graphic and exaggerated.
2006-09-11 20:10:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be aware not of the statistics about which you are informed. The are always the sunnier side of a bleak reality. For example, a 4.5% unemployment rate in the U.S. is absolutely meaningless as long as approximately 75 percent of our citizens are on some type of welfare / wealth transfer program.
No politician has the guts to tell the complete story, so they pick the statistic most beneficial to their cause. It is quite deceitful and they ought to be ashamed of themselves. I am all for clearing house and senate, but frankly the alternative just doesn't do it for me.
All politicians read the party's talking points to the point of redundancy and I am not a simple minded fool who doesn't recogize what they're up to. Wise up and we'll all be better off. Demand the full story.
2006-09-11 19:47:20 · answer #3 · answered by rlw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
4 out of 5 time the media uses statistics in suspect ways.
2006-09-11 19:44:52 · answer #4 · answered by ctrl-alt-delete 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. the media abuses statistics for their own agendas. I don't even listen to statistics anymore, it is a useless item.
2006-09-11 19:51:05 · answer #5 · answered by Chris 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most definetly. When there has been a disaster, the news media does not show what is actually happening. I have found this to be true not just in September 11, but other hurricanes, tornados. I really wish the media would have to see what we Red Cross Workers have to deal with in the aftermath!
2006-09-11 19:50:21 · answer #6 · answered by Pamela P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Media abuses every bit of information the receive!
2006-09-11 19:43:36 · answer #7 · answered by Smitty 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. The media uses statistics like a drunk uses a lamppost, for support rather than illumination
2006-09-11 19:52:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyday! Statistics are a form of installing Fear, it is used to control and conquer your actions and beliefs as a powerful person and human being.
2006-09-11 20:17:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES!! A sample of 1,000 people in a telephone survey is NOT generalizable to the whole population. Most reporters have no idea who to scrutinize a study much less to report the sample size or even give the vaguest threat to its validity.
2006-09-11 21:31:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋