Top 5 liberal lies disguised as math. EVIL
OR, everything liberals say is a hoax.
Barbie: "Math class is tough."
Let us review liberal math, which is not tough; it is fiction.
1. 97% of scientists believe in global warming -- which we define as man causing hell on Earth.
From the Wall Street Journal:
The so-called consensus comes from a handful of surveys and abstract-counting exercises that have been contradicted by more reliable research.One frequently cited source for the consensus is a 2004 opinion essay published in Science magazine by Naomi Oreskes, a science historian now at Harvard. She claimed to have examined abstracts of 928 articles published in scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, and found that 75% supported the view that human activities are responsible for most of the observed warming over the previous 50 years while none directly dissented. Ms. Oreskes's definition of consensus covered "man-made" but left out "dangerous"—and scores of articles by prominent scientists such as Richard Lindzen, John Christy, Sherwood Idso and Patrick Michaels, who question the consensus, were excluded. The methodology is also flawed. A study published earlier this year in Nature noted that abstracts of academic papers often contain claims that aren't substantiated in the papers.So 75% is 97% -- if you ignore other reports altogether.
2. 1 in 5 college women is raped.
From the Baltimore Sun:
Let's look at some facts.According to the FBI "[t]he rate of forcible rapes in 2012 was estimated at 52.9 per 100,000 female inhabitants." Assuming that all American women are uniformly at risk, this means the average American woman has a 0.0529 percent chance of being raped each year, or a 99.9471 percent chance of not being raped each year. That means the probability the average American woman is never raped over a 50-year period is 97.4 percent (0.999471 raised to the power 50). Over 4 years of college, it is 99.8 percent.Thus the probability that an American woman is raped in her lifetime is 2.6 percent and in college 0.2 percent — 5 to 100 times less than the estimates broadcast by the media and public officials.The actual statistic is 1 in 500. A new stat that liberals made up is that 1 in 3 college men want to rape a college woman. Katherine Timpf quickly shot this down: "this stat is based on a survey of just 73 guys at the University of North Dakota."
3. Average age in Vietnam was 19.
From Statistics about Vietnam:
Average age of 58,148 killed in Vietnam was 23.11 years.I went back 40 years to remind people how prevalent liberal lies disguised as statistics are when it comes to war. Be suspicious of any liberal stats on veterans. They will make them up out of whole cloth.
4. Women earn 77 cents on every dollar paid a man:
From the Washington Examiner:
The 77-cent figure comes from Census Bureau statistics showing that if you just look at what women earn versus what men earn, there's a wage gap. The Left likes to say that this is due to gender discrimination.But the 77-cent figure is comparing apples to oranges. It compares female nurses to male lawyers, female secretaries to male economists. When you control for occupation, college degree, experience and life choices (like women working jobs with flexible hours to care for their families), that wage gap virtually disappears.If an employer could get away with paying women 23% less than they pay men for the same performance, they would.
5. More black men are in prison than in college.
From The Root:
It's been more than 20 years since the Jheri curl faded away into infamy, and I'm proud to say that even in the 1980s, I never sported a curl. ...Today there are approximately 600,000 more black men in college than in jail, and the best research evidence suggests that the line was never true to begin with.Good gravy, even liberals dismiss this!
Those are just five off the top of my head. Can readers think of any more liberal lies disguised as math?
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