"I never lie"
- Jay Weekley
Ken Hohhof 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 <mailto:part15...@gmail.com>
*Sent:* Saturday, December 12, 2015 5:58 PM
*To:* af@afmug.com <mailto: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".
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bp
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