{"id":12938,"date":"2022-10-26T00:20:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T00:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=12938"},"modified":"2023-03-30T03:20:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T03:20:39","slug":"do-accurate-details-matter-in-forming-an-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2022\/10\/26\/do-accurate-details-matter-in-forming-an-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"Do accurate details matter in forming an argument?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not when you are the Education reporter for NPR, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/AK-Original-Post.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12939\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/AK-Original-Post.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/AK-Original-Post.jpg 485w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/AK-Original-Post-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every other OECD country managed it&#8221; &#8211; short school closures and lower death rates.<\/p>\n<p>Except not really:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/AK-Reply.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12940\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/AK-Reply.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/AK-Reply.jpg 422w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/AK-Reply-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/AK-Reply-262x270.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So &#8220;technically&#8221; her statement was false, such that she then word smiths by agreeing it&#8217;s false, but then let&#8217;s add a bunch of other things we never mentioned before (it&#8217;s still false) but it&#8217;s the thought that counts. Or something.<\/p>\n<p>Sloppiness like this does not look good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR reporter bungles simple facts to make her argument. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}