• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I don’t see how an error in a news article reporting on a poll done by a separate organization invalidates the results of that poll

    • LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Fair. But I also never said anything about it invalidating the poll.

      Yes yes i do edits: i do want to say though it’s not just this one article mentioning the 19 million, each article about this poll has mentioned it.

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        11 hours ago

        I believe there are only two articles, which are presumably just sourcing from an IMEU press release for their poll.

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          11 hours ago

          There were 3 that I found but apparently, when i looked them back up for this comment, two were written by the same person on different news sites so may as well be the same article so you’re right, there aren’t a many articles about it, although i wouldnt be surprised if more are written over the next few days.

          And if they’re just copying the IMEU press release then that brings into question where are they getting that 19 million figure? Moves the issue from the news organizations to the IMEU, which is probably worse than just a news org being wrong.