The New Yorker has the most thorough fact-checking in the business. I once had to provide a ticket to prove the claim that I traveled a twenty mile distance by train rather than some other mode of transportation. So how does this happen? Are some claims simply sacrosanct now?
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@Louise_M_Perry. According to her best approximation, the true rate of young people in the emergency room because of police violence is 0.2%, not 66.6%. Reforming the police is urgent. But scaring people with misinformation is bad.https://unherd.com/thepost/an-untrue-claim-in-the-new-yorker-speaks-volumes/ …Show this thread -
Ok, so the second half of the sentence could be talking about the *overall* number of people hit by motor vehicles. But that doesn't fix the underlying problem: the patently false claim that two thirds of young Americans in the emergency room are there due to police violence.
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Btw, I don't blame the writer, whom I admire immensely. We all get things wrong. But what we get wrong, and which claims fact-checkers find so plausible that they don't do their due diligence, is very telling. And however bad the actual facts, making people paranoid is... bad.
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It's not saying that at all.... re-read the sentence. It's comparing the number to car accident injuries in general, not in that same instance.
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Common core math.
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read the passage again, but slower
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