We’re surrounded by numbers,but few people know how to really spend them. How can we train politicians, the public and media to better decipher fact from fiction?In the lead-up to this year’s general election, or volunteers and staff at the independent fact-checking organisation Full Fact were putting in 18-hour days,seven days a week. From the 6am news broadcasts onwards, the team worked to provide a rapid verification of the figures that peppered every speech and debate.
And this work continues. Via its Facebook page – which welcomes fans with a banner image that reads “Tired of semi-skimmed answers? – Full Fact posts its latest assignments and projects.
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Source: theguardian.com