{"id":15353,"date":"2017-05-18T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15353"},"modified":"2017-05-18T07:24:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T11:24:01","slug":"who-fact-checks-the-fact-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/who-fact-checks-the-fact-checkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Fact Checks The Fact Checkers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051817_1121_WhoFactChec1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chloe Lim analyzed two major fact checkers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lim found that there was only a 10% overlap in the statements that two fact checkers evaluated.<\/li>\n<li>When there was overlap the two did not strongly agree \u2013 and sometimes flatly contradicted each other \u2013 in their assessment of a statements&#8217; accuracy.<\/li>\n<li>This may help explain why facts don&#8217;t seem to have had much of an effect in America&#8217;s primary and Presidential elections.<\/li>\n<li>In the fact checkers&#8217; defense \u2013 assessing the truth of political claims is hard. Politicians rarely offer much detail and usually ignore follow up requests for clarification.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B_wUaJ01JSddZTNWVWpkRzVXUzg\/view\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2017\/05\/checking-fact-checkers-check.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chloe Lim analyzed two major fact checkers: Lim found that there was only a 10% overlap in the statements that two fact checkers evaluated. When there was overlap the two did not strongly agree \u2013 and sometimes flatly contradicted each other \u2013 in their assessment of a statements&#8217; accuracy. This may help explain why facts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051817_1121_WhoFactChec1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15356,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15353\/revisions\/15356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}