{"id":9396,"date":"2016-03-27T01:36:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T01:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=932"},"modified":"2016-03-27T01:36:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T01:36:42","slug":"social-media-propaganda-posters-use-new-math-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/03\/27\/social-media-propaganda-posters-use-new-math-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media propaganda posters use &#8220;new math&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/OccupyDemo99PercVoted.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-930\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-930\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/OccupyDemo99PercVoted.png\" alt=\"OccupyDemo99PercVoted\" width=\"316\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a>TL; DR Summary<\/h2>\n<p>For the math challenged:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>99% of 1% is\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">about 1% of all voters<\/span><\/li>\n<li>57% of 99% is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">about 57% of all voters<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Therefore, <em>the 1% always win the elections &#8211; say what?<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Their own poster shows that 57% of voters took part, not 1% and there is no indication that 99% of the electorate is not voting. Geesh.<\/li>\n<li>This poster is nonsense.<\/li>\n<li>But you can be sure it was shared tens of thousands of times online. Because people anchor on the 99% figure in the first sentence and then falsely compare that to the 57% figure. Please! Think!<\/li>\n<li>Occupy Democrats is a professional propaganda business &#8211; they know precisely what they are doing and deliberately employed the psychological &#8220;anchoring&#8221; concept to design this poster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Text for Search Indexing<\/h2>\n<p>In the 2012 Election an astonishing 99% of the wealthiest 1% of Americans voted.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, only 57% of the general population voted.<\/p>\n<p>Share if you understand that if the other 99% don&#8217;t show up to vote, the 1% will always get their way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL; DR Summary For the math challenged: 99% of 1% is\u00a0about 1% of all voters 57% of 99% is about 57% of all voters Therefore, the 1% always win the elections &#8211; say what? Their own poster shows that 57% of voters took part, not 1% and there is no indication that 99% of the electorate is not voting. Geesh. This poster is nonsense. But you can be sure it was shared tens of thousands of times online. Because people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/03\/27\/social-media-propaganda-posters-use-new-math-2\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1],"tags":[239],"class_list":["post-9396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupidity","category-uncategorized","tag-occupydemocrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}