How bald face lies become facts

MrChaos · Post by **MrChaos** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 12:07 pm

First the lie

I immediately thought shenanigans and went to check

Percentage of US population based on race

White: 78.1 or 63.4 (if Hispanics are not counted as white)
Black: 13.1
Everyone else: 19.8 or 36.6

Total population in 313.9 Million (est. based off 2010 census)

White: 245.2 or 199.0
Black: 41.1

While not the actual eligible voters in the US it does give us a squint at things

Presidential election
58.7 of eligible people voted total 126.8 mill
Meaning there are est. 216 million eligible voters

If every single person who isn't white voted .366 percent
79.1 mill

meaning whites have to make up the other 47.7 mil votes

Total eligible black voters (est. based on percent of the population) if every single one voted 28.3 mill

Therefore it isn't even possible

But just you wait you will see this "fact" said again and again and again until it is no longer challenged

edit: fixed a cut and paste error

Post by **Raveen** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 12:38 pm

Is this not saying that the proportion of eligible voters that exercised their right to vote was higher amongst blacks than whites?

I only really scanned the story in question but it's one plausible interpretation of what I read.

djrbk · Post by **djrbk** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 2:31 pm

+1 at Rav.

They're talking about % of each race that voted, not total pool of votes divided by race.

/thread.

raumvogel · Post by **raumvogel** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 2:51 pm

I hate 1 paragraph snippets like this. They are BS...if it doesn't cite sources, I usually ignore them.

Here's the best response as far as I'm concerned:

Rosalind Heid
16 minutes ago

TO: GOP leaders

Give us someone worth voting for and we'll show up!

lexaal · Post by **lexaal** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 6:56 pm

u so racist.

Broodwich · Post by **Broodwich** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 8:15 pm

mrc schooled in math

To be fair, this story became a bigger deal than it should have because everyone reading it thought the same as mrc. HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE COUNTED WITH THE UNWASHED MASSES?!?

DonKarnage · Post by **DonKarnage** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:15 pm

Perhaps it's less to do with how many voted, and how they voted.
If all of one nationality vote 50/50 because they're all independent and can never agree on anything, then another group who has an actual clue will more often than not vote for the same person, and the ones voting 50/50 basically don't even matter.

Adept · Post by **Adept** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:02 pm

I'm trying to figure out what Don is trying to say and failing. What is your point?

MrChaos · Post by **MrChaos** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:39 pm

I get they mean some obscure thing like Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy and visa versa. Its purposely obstificated to give the impression that it does and sure as $#@! t will become an internet "fact". Bald faced lie maye not, dishonest bent journalism maybe, @#(!ty journalism sure to be misused absolutely.

tsubaki_sanjuro · Post by **tsubaki_sanjuro** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 1:33 am

blah blah blah

lorraine pascale

the uk wins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5u5lk5qtj4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNATXn4uyuU

apologise for your rebellion when you can, yanks