{"id":805795,"date":"2020-03-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=381042"},"modified":"2020-03-28T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T17:00:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-statistics-can-be-manipulated-to-serve-a-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-statistics-can-be-manipulated-to-serve-a-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Statistics can be manipulated to serve a purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/LettersWebCard-SDN-1-1024x638.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Written in response to \u201c<a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-fox-news-is-as-dangerous-as-covid-19\/\">Fox News is as dangerous as COVID-19<\/a>\u201d by letter writer Richard Gannon.<\/p>\n<p>Rendering an opinion based on \u201cso-called\u201d facts culled from various sources is a perfectly fine exercise. One could, however, question from where said \u201cundisputed facts\u201d came. Statistics can be manipulated to serve a purpose, but I digress. What is very disturbing about the opinion that was written, is the vitriol spewed about those who watch Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>The writer pointed out that they are \u201csociety\u2019s least educated and lack the intellectual ability to differentiate between fact and fiction.\u201d From where did that statistic come? Ridiculing, labeling and name-calling a group of people who watch certain television networks, in my opinion, is the definition of bullying! I should heed what my father-in-law always said: \u201cNever argue with a fool, because people watching or listening (in this case, reading) won\u2019t know who the (in this case, the self-aggrandizing) fool is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-statistics-can-be-manipulated-to-serve-a-purpose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written in response to \u201cFox News is as dangerous as COVID-19\u201d by letter writer Richard Gannon. Rendering an opinion based on \u201cso-called\u201d facts culled from various sources is a perfectly fine exercise. One could, however, question from where said \u201cundisputed facts\u201d came. Statistics can be manipulated to serve a purpose, but I digress. What is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 00:51:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}