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2024-08-01 21:11:57 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 0D5C9560C840E140B9664BB9CE995FC1382114A3CC5B86F04E4E43175D0CCA6B
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorbutterworth/2014/10/02/when-data-journalism-goes-wrong/ This article does a good job of explaining the flawed methodology of the study that generated this implausible data. It was based on self-reported data (which is unreliable) and multiplied responses uniformly by 1.9.
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