Comments on: Lies, damned lies, statistics, and media write-ups of surveys http://omegamom.com/2006/09/20/lies-damned-lies-statistics-and-media-write-ups-of-surveys/ A "good enough" mom muses about alpha moms, adoption, computers, the State Of The World, Internet quirkiness, and the Kosmik All Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:20:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: LizC http://omegamom.com/2006/09/20/lies-damned-lies-statistics-and-media-write-ups-of-surveys/#comment-940 LizC Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:22:00 +0000 http://omegamom.com/?p=336#comment-940 oh, you know how I feel about this kind of thing. It is grossly misleding-- they love to do it with medical stuff, and it really makes the public so much less informed. I think the editors rationalize it by saying "surely interested people will go read the study and further educate themselves" but in reality they simply have to know that they are lying to themselves. Very few people could read and understand the studies, let alone parse them out to really make sense of the lies they are being fed. It is very sad and really pisses me off, because of course so many people make idiotic assumptions and then the stuff gets spread around and people see it in several places so it must be true.... arrgh! The internet doesn't help much, either, since every moron with an opinion can find other morons to gree, without realizing that just becasue someone agrees with you, it doesn't make you right. Arrgh. oh, you know how I feel about this kind of thing. It is grossly misleding– they love to do it with medical stuff, and it really makes the public so much less informed. I think the editors rationalize it by saying “surely interested people will go read the study and further educate themselves” but in reality they simply have to know that they are lying to themselves. Very few people could read and understand the studies, let alone parse them out to really make sense of the lies they are being fed.

It is very sad and really pisses me off, because of course so many people make idiotic assumptions and then the stuff gets spread around and people see it in several places so it must be true…. arrgh! The internet doesn’t help much, either, since every moron with an opinion can find other morons to gree, without realizing that just becasue someone agrees with you, it doesn’t make you right.

Arrgh.

]]> By: Miss Cellania http://omegamom.com/2006/09/20/lies-damned-lies-statistics-and-media-write-ups-of-surveys/#comment-939 Miss Cellania Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:07:00 +0000 http://omegamom.com/?p=336#comment-939 Figures. They just gotta have those sensational headlines to grab readers. When I read your first sentence, I thought "Can't be. Way too expensive." Figures. They just gotta have those sensational headlines to grab readers. When I read your first sentence, I thought “Can’t be. Way too expensive.”

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