I love that show. On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
> “It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only > variable is about what.” > - Gregory House > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZR2k5c_198 > > *From:* Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Saturday, December 12, 2015 5:58 PM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT weekend edition: Lies, Lies, Lies > > The political stuff was just part of the podcast. It went into several > aspects of lies, and why/how we accept lies in our daily lies. I just > printed the politifact stuff because I had mis-quoted the true/false ratios > in my first post. > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > > On 12/12/2015 3:51 PM, Simon Westlake wrote: > > Assuming this is accurate, the best anyone has done is to be 54% truthful? > > I'll listen to the podcast later, I guess it would really depend a lot on > what they're ranking (e.g. 'he said milk costs 2.95 at the supermarket but > that day it was 2.84!) but it wouldn't really surprise me from listening to > a lot of what's been said lately. > > On 12/12/2015 4:41 PM, Bill Prince wrote: > > Correction: the 4%/84% ratio was Ben Carson. The Donald's numbers were > 7%/76%. > S > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > > On 12/12/2015 2:37 PM, Bill Prince wrote: > > > I listened to this story from *On the Media* on NPR, and found it very > entertaining. It's a discussion about "Lies", and humans inability to just > tell the truth. > > http://www.onthemedia.org/story/on-the-media-2015-12-04/ > > One interesting sub-topic was Donald Trump, and an examination of 72 > statements from the Donald. Of the 72 statement examined by Politifact.org > <http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/nov/01/principles-politifact-punditfact-and-truth-o-meter/>, > exactly zero of the statements was considered "true". About 4% of his > statements were considered "partially true", but 84% of his statements were > "mostly false", "false", or "pants on fire". > > > > -- > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > > > > -- > Simon Westlake > Skype: Simon_Sonar > Email: simon@sonar.software > Phone: (702) 447-1247 > --------------------------- > Sonar Software Inc > The next generation of ISP billing and OSShttps://sonar.software > > >
