The Misleading Statistics in Media

 Greeting everyone! My blog about the misleading statistics in the media was presenting one of the current issues in the media related to misuse of statistics in the media and fake news. However, there are a lot of issues that exist in the media, and they variously affect people. That is why it is important to learn about them, and understand the ways of how they do affect us. Luckily, my classmates have created interesting, thoughtful, insightful, and important analysis of these problems, and I recommend all of you to visit their blogs and read about these issues.  Artem Ageenko - " Social Media Impact on the Workplace "  The blog made by Artem Ageenko presents the modern issue of social media involvement and impact on the workplace. In his blog, he describes the various events with subsequent discussions about the relevance of that issue from the employers & employees perspectives. Also, he discusses the benefits of social media in terms of communication between the...

       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...