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Need bias statistics in articles.?

Hello, I have having trouble searching for news or media articles that happen to have statistics that are bias to any extent.

Thanks.

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  • 6 years ago

    Do you mean recently, or at any time? One example I can think of was the whole "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" mistake, where a newspaper wrongly predicted that Thomas Dewey would beat Harry Truman in the 1948 election, based on a phone survey. Only issue was, not too many people had phones at the time - those who did tended to be wealthier, and hence, as a whole, more likely to support the Republican candidate, so that was an example of selection bias.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    DATA ANALYSIS: https://www.createspace.com/4487908

    CONTENTS

    TOPIC 1 Data and Data Sets (Classifying Data: Categorical, Numerical. Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, Ratio)

    TOPIC 2 Displaying Data (Graphs & Charts)

    TOPIC 3 Numerical Summaries

     MEAN

     MEDIAN

     MODE

     RANGE

     STANDARD DEVIATION

     VARIANCE

     COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION

    TOPIC 4 Relationships between variables

    TOPIC 5 Introduction to Probability

    TOPIC 6 Probability Distributions

     BINOMIAL

     POISSON

     NORMAL

    TOPIC 7 Sampling & Sampling Distributions

    TOPIC 8 Interval Estimation (including calculation of sample size) [1-sample]

    TOPIC 9 Hypothesis Testing [1-sample]

    TOPIC 10 Regression Analysis (Simple Linear)

    TOPIC 11 Time-Series and Index Numbers

    TOPIC 12 EXAM REVISION

    GLOSSARY

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    You have to be kidding me, *Most* of them are bias. Try MSNBC. Their statistic on illegal Immigration claims that the net amount of people entering the country is equivalent to those 'illegally' leaving.

  • 6 years ago

    Alright man. Thanks!

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