There has been a poll in Canberra to test public opinion for a GreenLabor Govt proposed light rail or tram project connecting the centre of Canberra to the northern suburbs of Gungahlin.
A few days later this article – Light rail poll: What do the numbers really say? – simply removed the Liberal voters from the poll numbers and came up with support for Govt light rail. For US readers Liberals in Australia tend to be right of centre.
OK – that is the first example of left-wing math – not keen on a result? – just throw away part of the data rinse & repeat.
The second example of left wing maths was exposed on the ABC Q&A TV show where a panel stacked with lefties answers questions from a live audience also stacked from the left. One of the aims of the show is to attack the lone conservative panelist. In the show Monday 29 June 2015 just before the 39minute mark in the transcript Lawrence Krauss refers to a poll in the US showing that more people are killed by “right wing extremists” than by Jihadists. But of course that result is only obtained by using data after 9/11. Love those left wing maths and remember the demand for global warming/climate change policy changes are driven by the left.
Thanks Warwick.
From your link: “Since Sept. 11, 2001,” the article says, “nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims: 48 have been killed by extremists who are not Muslim, including the recent mass killing in Charleston, S.C., compared with 26 by self-proclaimed jihadists, according to a count by New America, a Washington research center.”
So they leave out the biggest terrorist attack in history, and all the attacks on Americans abroad, while on the other side they throw in every nutter they can find to pad the numbers of “non-Muslim extremists”, yet they still end up with radical Muslims responsible for more than a third of all deaths. And since Muslims are only 1% of the US population, these numbers actually show that a given Muslim is more than 30 times as likely to kill someone for ideological reasons as anybody else.
I can’t believe the way people on the Left try to minimise and even excuse Muslim extremism and terror. The fact that the USA is relatively safe from this horror of our age is a credit to their police, not a reason to downplay the threat.