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    7 hours ago

    There’s a teensy bit of data massaging to make the approval rating appear lower… in my opinion of course.

    The respondents were asked to rank “acceptability of the killers actions” on a scale of 1 to 5.

    Assumin’the average “young voter” views gunning strangers down as:

    [1.very unfavorable]

    (You would, if asked about murder, say it was bad As a rule. right? I would too. Ya know, unless it was justified.)

    Looking at it that way, the same data looks a lot different suddenly.

    33% young voters still think the killer is completely unjustified.

    7% think there was some justification

    19% are undecided if the CEO deserved to die for what he did

    24% think the killer was mostly justified… But have reservations

    17% believe he was 100% in the right

    I got a little free with the interpretations but you get the idea, You could decide to frame the data this way too. there’s a saying: statistics don’t lie but statisticians do. Here’s my 100% true alternate title using the data but presented with the story I want to tell:

    67% of Young Voters at Least Partly Approve of Killers Actions

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      6 hours ago

      Selective selection of selected data by billionaire controlled media still can’t get below 41%

      It’s awesome how willfully they exclude or manipulate in attempt to soften the information.