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Back in March, the Washington Post published a piece by three Texas A&M professors who had produced a paper titled “The Trump Effect: How 2016 Campaign Rallies Explain Spikes in Hate .” The paper, which hadn’t been published or peer-reviewed, claimed there was a 226 percent jump in hate crimes in counties that hosted a Trump rally. The Post story made the rounds and was discussed at Vox, the San Francisco Chronicle, CNN and by politicians. Here’s a Bernie Sanders meme published just last month based on the story. Also last month, Rep. Ilhan Omar used the same claim to attack Trump on Twitter:
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But last Friday, Reason published a piece by two Harvard Ph.D. students who took a look at the claims made in the original paper. After replicating the paper’s results they found the conclusions were based on a mistake:
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After controlling for this, “the estimated effect of Trump rallies on reported hate incidents to become statistically indistinguishable from zero.” In other words, Trump’s rallies weren’t inspiring hate crimes and Hillary’s weren’t either. The authors go on to speculate about how the original paper could have circulated so widely despite the fact it hadn’t been peer-reviewed. The conclude the problem likely had to do with media bias:
Lefties will never stop lying because for them, the agenda is more important than the truth. If you let them ramble on enough, they will come right out and say this with pride and conviction.
The authors go on to speculate about how the original paper could have circulated so widely despite the fact it hadn’t been peer-reviewed. They conclude the problem likely had to do with media bias
now there's a shocker.
i just posted the same thing on the old thread before seeing this one.
There really is fake news, and most of it comes from the left. That's who runs the media.
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