Wednesday, April 16, 2014

The 77% Income Fallacy

Stop the presses! The White House has promoted a "material discrepancy."

I don't even want to link this one and get into a "my link is better than yours" or a "Yeah, you link to the vast right wing conspiracy." This particular fallacy has been hashed and rehashed and recycled shamelessly over the years. A Google search of 77 per cent will bring up a truckload of links including a bunch from 2010.  Even 'Slate' is calling the 77% figure a "misleading statistic."

Why did Rolaids consume 47% of excess stomach acid? Because advertisers love odd numbers. They seem less contrived. I don't know if the Dems ran a focus group for this one but they are married to the number 77.

One more insulting lie from an administration that is hostile to the very premise of truth.

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