Is there a term for this journalistic ambiguity?
Often you will hear stories in which injuries are clumped together in such a way as to make serious injuries seem much more common than they are. Here is a made-up, slightly exaggerated example:
47% of students in the South report that they have been violently assaulted, bullied or teased.
Sounds like a very dire situation, but if one looks at the data:
Violent assault - 0.1%
Bullied - 4%
Teased - 43%
So while the numbers are true, they are, at the same time, somewhat misleading. Does this fallacy have a name?
So far I have not had much of a reply to this...