Posts by David Hood
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As it is about a year since this was active, while the reporting of crime has changed, I can note that, if anything, the number of unique offenders per head population for the violentish crimes above proceeding to court seems to have steadily increased (and it certainly hasn't gone down).
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Farmer Green,
I don't think anyone considers or has claimed propaganda to be novel,
p.s. if you did due diligence on the zero hedge article, there were several misrepresentations in it. Possibly most ironically that they had been called a fake news site. They hadn't. They had appeared on a list of sites post fake articles, or misleading articles or clickbait. And their response was to publish an article that misrepresented what the list was about (there are other misrepresentations in the article- like that the list only targeted right-wing sites, which fall apart if people actually check).
Tim O'Reilly recently published his thoughts on identifying made up or misleading stories https://medium.com/@timoreilly/how-i-detect-fake-news-ebe455d9d4a7#.9eis4ntz9
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a data based investigation into the propagation mechanisms of the US political "news"-like stories
https://points.datasociety.net/fake-news-is-not-the-problem-f00ec8cdfcb#.1anmzfrqk
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Polity: Catch you later, in reply to mpledger,
I’m assuming this is American data
It is Israeli data.
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What's flawed about it? The aim of the test was to stop people deemed inappropriate by the local officials from voting. It succeeded in it's aim
By the way, those were only the first 13 questions
I'm sure people here could design a better test- where better is defined as excluding a different group of people that you want to exclude, but it will only be better in the sense of affecting a different group. This test was extremely effective as a gatekeeper.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to BenWilson,
I’m pretty sure Rich posted it as a joke
I suspect it was to illustrate what happens once you start setting voter eligibility tests. These tests were from the 1960s. Note that everyone didn't have to take them, at the top it says "cannot prove a 6th grade education" so white people with good records didn't have to take the test (even if they could not have passed it) OTOH poor black people were disproportionately likely to have moved into manual work by the 5th grade and/or not have good records (sufficient to meet the standard set by the government of Louisiana) had to take the test, and thus flunked the "Literacy" requirement (it did claim to be a literacy test).
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Farmer Green,
Absolutely, zero is not a natural number. However, tests to be eligible to vote are fundamentally there to block people the test designer doesn't want voting, so in that respect the questions are there to limit people passing. It doesn't matter (from the test maker's perspective) if the questions are fair.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Farmer Green,
No zero is not a number
For the purposes of the test, zero was a number. Because, as I understand it, to pass the test you had to understand the instruction "cross out the number necessary," to translate to striking out the last 4 zeros. You also had to understand "when making the number below one million" as "when making the number, which is located below, one million"
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Dennis Frank,
Wasn’t Jackson famous for defeating the central bank option?
Absolutely. Among white people he is remember as sticking up for the little guy against the elite and his short temper.
Vulnerable minorities tend to focus more on the genocidal ethnic cleansing of the Trail of Tears.
There are many reasons for seeing him as the most Trump-like president.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Dennis Frank,
Democracy is discrediting itself by means of the results it’s producing
I think you might be overstating the case against democracy there. What range of results do you expect from a democracy that has spent about 93% of its existence at war? Who has elected luminaries like Warren G. Harding and James Buchanan. To my eye Andrew Jackson is probably the most Trump-like in character, and he is considered by most Americans to have been a "good" president.