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Was U.S. voter turnout at a 20-year low in 2016?
Voter turnout this year dipped to nearly its lowest point in two decades.
Voter turnout at 20-year low in 2016 - CNN, November 30, 2016
That would be remarkable.
I recalled this CNN article when someone recently argued that voter turnout was not…
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Does reported alcohol intake, according to population surveys, only account for half of the alcohol sold?
A recent book by the House of Commons Library statistician Georgina Sturge, criticises an over reliance on data collected by self-reporting surveys in areas where there may be an incentive to minimise the reporting of "undesirable" activity.
In one…
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Did the 1994 US crime bill "bring down crime"?
In 1994, the US federal government adopted the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act (signed into law Sept. 13, 1994).
Ben Shapiro, host of the 'Daily Wire' podcast on YouTube, referred to it recently, saying:
The 1994 crime bill... it…
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Has Florida left 75% of its lettuce crop unharvested due to the coronavirus lockdowns?
Various sources claim that Florida's coronavirus lockdown has caused a serious breakdown in the food supply chain in the state. For example, this Politico article states the following:
The scale of produce waste is staggering. Farmers in Florida,…
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Are there only 1,200-1,900 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in India and Japan, as of March 30, 2020?
According to Coronavirus (COVID-19) map, as of March 30th there are only 1,263 confirmed cases in India and 1,866 in Japan.
Meanwhile, there are already 142,000 in US, 9,661 in South Korea, and 41,000 in Iran.
Given that both India and Japan…
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Do the majority of flood deaths happen in vehicles?
According to a radio broadcast of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s NOAA Weather Radio KHB36 162.550 MHz (Manassas, Virginia) on May 24, 2022, a few minutes before 00:00 UTC,
Turn around, don't drown when encountering…
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Are less than 1% of all adverse vaccine events reported?
According to Electronic Support for Public Health–Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP:VAERS) "Likewise, fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported." (page 6).
Is that true? And how do they know that?
(A similarly low number is…
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Do more than 22% of American adults own Bitcoin?
NYDIG published this statement:
Our findings suggest that 46MM+ Americans own Bitcoin today. That’s more than 22% of adults over the age of 18.
That figure sounds extraordinarily high to me. And NYDIG is not a disinterested party: NYDIG describes…
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Did 61% of all Americans agree that 'a politician who does unethical things in their personal life can still fulfill their duties' in 2016?
A colleague shared the below graphic from Twitter with claims about how the opinions of various demographic groups hava changed between 2011 and 2016:
This seems automatically dubious as neither the graphic nor the associated tweet cites any source…
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Are handguns used in 80% of mass shootings?
I've heard it several times, "More than 80% of mass shootings are carried out with handguns", often on social media, for example:
Handguns are responsible for more than 80% of mass shootings
...and sometimes in passing mentions in articles, for…
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Was the average prison sentence of men who kill their female partners 2 to 6 years in 1989?
According to this Jan 12, 2019 article from the Guardian:
The average prison sentence for men who kill their female partners is
two to six years.
Such short sentencing sounds unrealistically short to me. Supposedly it comes from Statistics cited…
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Does Ukraine have more tanks now than it did at the beginning of the invasion?
During a war, one may expect tank counts for both sides to go decrease (i.e. as they engage in combat and are destroyed).
MSNBC reports Forbes stating:
The Ukrainian army has more tanks now than when the war began
with the rationale…
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Are more serial killers born in November than in any other month?
There are several internet pages that claim that the number of serial killers born in November is particularly high.
For example, this article lists eleven murderers born in November and quotes a website "UberFacts":
Seventeen serial killers were…
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Are these anomalies in the Biden-Trump vote data indicative of voter fraud?
Twitter user, @APhilosophae, with 24K followers, recently published a Twitter thread detailing an analysis of voting patterns in the recent US presidential election.
They argue that most states the proportion of votes between Trump and Biden…
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What is the real amount of new Covid-19 cases per week per 100,000 people in Germany?
As I live in Germany, I am trying to follow the local Covid-19 situation with attention.
The other day I saw a source (Financial Times) I was not following being shared on twitter. I noticed that it was reporting significantly different numbers from…
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