The Misleading Statistics in Media

       The fake news is a phenomenon which exist in media for a long time, and its main purpose is to mislead people for financial or political benefit. In many cases,  fake news use statistics for argumentation for their misinformation. We can consider the misleading statistics as a subcategory of fake news, as it uses numbers, tests, and data analysis to meet the expected conclusions and persuasion of people to support the stated point of view. The recent example with vaccination against Covid-19 and its misleading statistical information about harmful effects of vaccines,  causes severe problems with vaccination of the population. Indeed, the misleading statistics cause a problems for the media users, and that is why my blog were created to discuss and identify that issue. I suggest that the topic of misleading statistics is an important topic in the media, and everyone should be aware of it. This essay-post will discuss my view on a misleading statistic...

 The post made by Avanti Giradharan, "How the media used data to mislead you", presents the outlook on the ways of how the statistics can manipulate a person. Although we live in a technological advanced era, the current technologies provide the high possibility for data to be distorted and manipulated to warp your view. The article consists of 5 main parts, which are Misleading Graphs, Skewed Statistics, Crafted Headlines, Clickbait, and Confirmation bias.  The Misleading Graphs describes the way of how does the graph can be manipulated. It involves the part of scale distortion and cherry-picking. Scale distortion refers to the ways of how by manipulating with x- axis and y-axis the interpretation of statistics could be made, while cherry-picking is again, referring to decide whether to include some of the important data records. The Skewed Statistics refers to the problems, and it incorporates the parts about the neglect of variables and measurement of estimates. Neglect of...

 As we discussed earlier, the statistics are one of the most interesting and manipulative tools which could be used for persuasion and hiding the reality by various methods that could be made for statistical reports. This time, I would like to discuss the ways of how the government can manipulate statistics by approaching different methodologies for data analysis.  The statistics could be influence by the some of the governmental organisations. If we assume that all of the bureau of statistics receive the accurate data and made minor changes in data records to adjust them for further analysis, then the main way to have the opportunity for statistics misleading is in the methodology. Methodology plays a crucial role in data analysis, as some of the minor changes could influence the conclusions and overview on the outlook for current situation, for which the analysis were made. And that is the one of the ways to manipulate people with data, which mostly used by politicians and o...

 Greetings everyone! I came across some of the resources which could help you in understanding and identifying the misleading and falsified statistics and news. As some of the falsified and misleading statistics are already created in a form of conclusions which used in the news,  I will include resources which would help you to identify these news. They are presented below: FullFact organisation -  https://fullfact.org  Fullfact is the website of the organisation which purpose is to prevent, check and expose misinformation in the news, as well as to educate and present trustworthy information and facts about some of the events. By typing the key word in the search on the website, you can find all of the trustworthy facts about the events or news. Additionally, the organisation has developed the technology that are able to identify the misleading in the claims made by politicians, public institutions, journalists and viral content. If they find the news made on falsi...

 The topic of misleading statistics have already reached the tables of academic scientists. And they already starting to academically examining it. One of this academic sources were made by Maiz Mohammed Masi in 2019, and the name of it is "Analysis of Misleading Statistics" from The International Journal.  The paper presents a broad and analytical view on the topic of misleading statistics. It incorporates sections as Introduction, Literature Review, Some relevant terms ( Which includes the important terms as Statistics and Data Analysis) , Methods of Persuasion, Constraints in analysing the data, The analysis in scientific domain,  and  Overcoming faulty statistics  (Masi, 2019) .  Literature Review emphasises the importance of statistics based on the American Statistical Association ASA) and presents sources that were used to explain the material presented in other parts of the paper. Additionally, the quote from A. Wolf's paper were discusses, and it s...

     As the topic of misleading statistics might be seen as non-significant to the media, however, it has a dramatic effect on the events happening now in the World. One of these events is the misleading claims about vaccination from Covid-19 that dramatically affect viewers/listeners of the content in the media, thus, influencing their decision over whether or not to get vaccinated.  Before we start, I do not want to make this post as somewhat blaming and rebuking, because in this blog we discuss misleading statistics, no more than that. Vaccination is an individual's choice and decision , and people should weigh all of the pros and cons before making one. However, all of the decisions should consider all of the possible, right, and trustworthy information  and misleading statistics is not that one. Right before the UK government have announced an extension of the UK Covid vaccination programme for 12- to 15-year-olds children, there was a controversy abo...