You don't seem very well informed buddy. At the start of this thread I clarified that I despise both major parties (Bush and his 'tards included) but that also includes Moore and HIS 'tards.
If you think this guy's "research" is any good and that it's believable truth, without even looking into the sources (yes, I mean more than just reading/watching what he picks and chooses from them)... If you don't even take the time to assess those sources to see if THEY even know what they're talking about and where they're getting their conclusions, then sir you are well-snowed, as we say up here. Tricked would be another polite term for it.
Example on how anyone can fudge statistics to make them say whatever you want:
Let's make up a story. Let's say that every year, 10 billion lemmings go kill themselves. Let's say that because of some mean old factory polluting the area, an estimated 10,005,000,000 lemmings kill themselves instead that year. I could twist these hard numbers two ways:
>>>I could say OH MY GOD WHAT A CRISIS!! 5 MILLION more lemmings killed themselves this year because of this factory!! It's a tragedy!
>>>Or I could try and convince you otherwise: The increase in suicides was hardly affected, it was not even a tenth of a percent! In fact it was only 0.05% of increase!
Other positions:
>>>I could also be a stickler and point out that the second figure is just an estimate, so how can we be sure that an increase so small as 0.05% even happened at all when the accuracy of estimation is not so high? Maybe the factory isn't a cause at all.
[Also under this heading I could question the methods and validity of the findings of these numbers]
>>>Or I just don't care about lemmings. They're a nuissance anyway so let them go kill themselves, more factories!!
>>>The following year, only 9 billion lemmings killed themselves. So perhaps that fact was left out, and in a graph showing the previous two years, one could make all the conclusions above. With the new data, one could say that the factory's presence actually LOWERED the number of suicides. One must obtain the complete data for an accurate conclusion.
The moral of the story is there are many ways to interpret raw data, and raw data itself should be examined as to how it was gathered. Knowing the complete raw data and how it was obtained, one can confidently hypothesize a conclusion.
And yet, around the world, many, many people are easily convinced of "statistical facts" as-presented by biased individuals with agendas. They lazily do not even research such "facts" or try to contextualize the situation. Instead they simply accept. It's so much easier to just say "yeah, ok" than to think. THAT is why I despise Michael Moore, and at least half of America.
