The Misleading Statistics in Media

 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...

            Greetings everyone!  My name is Artem Skripnik, and I am the fourth-year student at University at New York in Prague. The idea of this blog is present to you the issue of misleading statistics in media. Although this blog was created as a project at my university, this topic interests me a lot because of the problems which occur sometimes by the statistics presented in the media. At most, people tend to believe conclusions based on a numerical or graphical evidence, which is a field of statistics. The conclusions supported with the numerical evidence seems logical and trustful to us. However, the statical evidence could be a misleading or falsified in some cases, and that could lead to bad consequences. This evidence would lead us to wrong conclusions that will directly or indirectly influence our decision. Sometimes that decisions could be crucial, and bad decision could affect our life. That is why this blog will dive into the topic ...