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gmorton on October 21 at 8:23 p.m.
Regarding your story today headlined, “Report says cost of living higher in state’s poor neighborhoods”:
The S-R would do its readers a real service if it would subject these leftist propaganda tracts to some critical scrutiny before giving them ink.
Your story uses such terms as “report,” “findings,” and “state study,” giving readers the impression that the claims and recommendations made have some sort of scientific basis. They have no such thing. This so-called “study” consists entirely of anecdotal sound bites drawn from “community surveys” and “focus groups;” there is no scientific sampling, no control groups, no quantified data, no item analysis of responses, and thus no data whatsoever supporting the gratuitous “recommendations.”
Does the S-R not have someone on staff, or perhaps an outside consultant, qualified to vet this sort of thing before publishing it? Did anyone at the paper even *read* this “report” before lending the paper's pages to the promoters' propaganda machine?
A previous thread dealt with the so-called “liberal bias” in the “mainstream media.” I suspect much of it is due, not to editorial policy, but to editorial laziness and gullibility. They sure took you for a ride on this one.
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Arch_Druid on October 24 at 8:15 a.m.
Hmmm, GMorton, you disagree with it, therefore the study took the S-R for a ride. But then I am sure I know why, you might have to share a tax burden with the least of these among us. That's where the real heart burn comes in.
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gmorton on October 24 at 11:27 a.m.
No, Arch. I have no idea whether I agree with its conclusions, since it offers no evidence to evaluate. I only disagree with presenting it as a scientific study when it manifestly is not.
You do know how real studies are done, don't you?
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Arch_Druid on October 26 at 10:42 a.m.
I don't pay attention to studies, GMorton. But I do pay attention to your violin playing anytime a study comes out that you have political heartburn over. So be it.
After all, we only had health studies about what alcohol would do to you and then what CERTAIN TYPES OF ALCOHOL would do for you. So, given the tendency of studies to over time self-contradict, I no longer pay attention to them. Sorry.
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