No one else was bothered by significant? A subjective term that allows the reader to draw their own false conclusions from the headline?
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Americans on Facts and Opinions
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5/5 for both. Easy quiz.
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June 20, 2018 at 2:30 pm
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2018 at 2:32 pm by RoadRunner79.)
If it wasn’t done by pew research, I would say that this is click bait. Like 90% of people cannot do this, and your a genius if you can. I think that further study, may give different results.
(June 20, 2018 at 2:13 pm)henryp Wrote: No one else was bothered by significant? A subjective term that allows the reader to draw their own false conclusions from the headline? I think that was one of the ambiguous questions they mentioned. While what one person might regard as significant may be different from another’s, it’s still talking about facts. I paused on that one a little though.
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If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther  (June 20, 2018 at 2:30 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: If it wasn’t done by pew research, I would say that this is click bait. Like 90% of people cannot do this, and your a genius if you can. I think that further study, may give different results. That's how they really do it. By using language that frames the facts in the desired way. Is the territory lost significant in size? Is it significant in some strategic sense. Is it significant because it seems like a lot to the author? How significant is it? "Significant" is definitely not a fact.  (June 20, 2018 at 2:00 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(June 20, 2018 at 1:57 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I doubt Europeans are better. I just spent 3 months there and they were super ill-informed or misinformed about America, in general. It makes no difference where you live, if I knew nothing about America I could give the correct answers. It was asking if the statement represented a fact or an opinion, not if the statement was true or false.
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Home  (June 20, 2018 at 2:13 pm)henryp Wrote: No one else was bothered by significant? A subjective term that allows the reader to draw their own false conclusions from the headline? Yeh I did pause at that one. It was to do with the territory lost by ISIS. I just assumed they had lost so much territory, and territory of objective importance to both sides, that it wouldn't be subjective if both sides thought the territory is significant. This was the one I paused the most on though. Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them. Impersonation is treason. RE: Americans on Facts and Opinions
June 20, 2018 at 3:24 pm
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2018 at 3:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Significant territory is a measure of area, not subjective appraisals of strategic importance. That would be -A- significant territory.
Even then, it would likely be classified as fact given the breadth of their losses.
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5/5 and 5/5. Whew! Dodged a bullet on that one!
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