Fox Fudges The Numbers - You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up!

Fox fudges poll numbers to claim 120 percent of the public believes scientists falsify global warming data. That's all of us and then some of us again.

Last week, Fox and Friends showed a Rasmussen poll graphic revealing that a whopping 120 percent of the American public believes scientists may be falsifying research to support their own theories on global warming:


Media Matters explains Fox’s fuzzy math:

Well, here’s the Rasmussen poll Fox & Friends cited. They asked respondents: “In order to support their own theories and beliefs about global warming, how likely is it that some scientists have falsified research data?” According to the poll, 35 percent thought it very likely, 24 percent somewhat likely, 21 percent not very likely, and 5 percent not likely at all (15 percent weren’t sure).

Fox News’ graphics department added together the “very likely” and “somewhat likely” numbers to reach 59 percent, and called that new group “somewhat likely.” Then, for some reason, they threw in the 35 percent “very likely” as their own group, even though they already added that number to the “somewhat likely” percentage. Then they mashed together the “not very likely” and “not likely at all” groups, and threw the 15 percent who were unsure into the waste bin. Voila — 120 percent.

Last month, ThinkProgress also caught Fox showing a pie chart documenting that 193 percent of the public supports Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, or Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination in 2012. So much for “zero tolerance for on-screen errors.”

This is now dubbed, "Fox Math," a new elite method of mathematical calculation that even your own children will soon be learning in school.

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Comment by Cathi Luytjes on December 14, 2009 at 11:26pm
Ah, Fox Math. Another new math our kids will learn that gets us further and further away from reality. Oy!
Comment by youhavetoforgiveme on December 12, 2009 at 5:28pm
You're right...you can't make this up...and this is funny :)

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