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Methods - Malark-O-Meter
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Malarkey and malarkey comparisons. How I analyze stuff. How does Malark-O-Meter calculate malarkey scores? How does it analyze them? How do you make the perfect grilled cheese sandwich? Brash Equilibrium knows the answers to each of these questions. Here, he answers only two of them. By Benjamin Chabot-Hanowell (legally named Benjamin Hanowell). Is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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Disclaimer - Malark-O-Meter
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Malarkey and malarkey comparisons. Meter is in no way affiliated with or approved by any fact checking organization, including but not limited to Politifact. Or The Fact Checker. But it sure would love to be! Hint hint, fact checkers.). By Benjamin Chabot-Hanowell (legally named Benjamin Hanowell). Is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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The malarkey score - Malark-O-Meter
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Malarkey and malarkey comparisons. The gist of the malarkey score. Malarkey measures the average degree of falsehood in an individual or group's statements. It goes from 0 to 100. Zero means everything you say (that has been rated by fact checkers) is true (ot at least it's been rated as true). A score of one hundred means you're full of malarkey. Or at least, everything you've said that's been rated by the a couple of professional fact checker groups is false. At PolitiFact.com, and the. Extension to tw...
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Similar sites - Malark-O-Meter
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Malarkey and malarkey comparisons. Here's an annotated list of other sites that analyze fact checker report cards. This site is awesome. Author Karen S. has the full data set of PolitiFact rulings and has done a lot of in-depth analysis on fact checking and fact checkers that you won't find on Malark- O. Steve's also done a tone of work breaking down PolitiFact's rulings by topic, party, and even the occupation of the individual or group whose statement is rated.
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Measuring uncertainty - Malark-O-Meter
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Malarkey and malarkey comparisons. Rather than answer questions like, "Is Barack Obama more or less truthful than Mitt Romney? Meter prefers to answer questions like, "Given the amount and type of data we have, how certain can we be that Barack Obama is more or less truthful than Mitt Romney given a set of assumptions we have made about how to measure factuality? Rather than ask, "Was Barack Obama less factual during his first presidential debate than he usually is? Where does uncertainty come from?
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Malark-O-Meter - Malark-O-blog
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Malarkey and malarkey comparisons. WaPo #FactChecker @GlennKesslerWP inadvertently shows why sound checking will be better than fact checking. SoundCheks are better than fact checking because fact checkers check logical validity only implicitly. Consequently, they get mixed up about what a fact is, confuse their readers, and make overly subjective rulings (and, as we'll see, overly subjective choices about what to rule on). Earlier today, Glenn Kessler, the Fact Checker at the. Explains why his team did.
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Caveats - Malark-O-Meter
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Malarkey and malarkey comparisons. Here is a list of caveats to the measure of factuality from fact checker ratings. More caveats will be added when they come to light, and when Brash comes around to writing about them. Also stay tuned for discussion of caveats in Malark- O. Blog Thanks to friends, family, colleagues, and assorted redditors who raised these issues. Factuality, truthfulness, or both? Refers to how well your hits are centered on the bullseye. Refers to how well you group your shots. It...
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About - Malark-O-Meter
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Malarkey and malarkey comparisons. Meter was a prototype for a much larger project I have in mind, called Sound Check. I've stopped updating Malark- O. Meter, but maintain it and its domain name. Taking measurements based on a sample moves us out of the simple, orderly world of descriptive statistics. And into the weird world of inferential statistics. Factuality isn't the only important salient characteristic of a politician. Fact checkers' report cards aren't the only way to measure veracity. N...Where...
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Malarkey and malarkey comparisons - Malark-O-Meter
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Malarkey and malarkey comparisons. Uncertainty in individual factuality scores. These methods apply to analyses of any one of our malarkey scores. Estimating the probability distribution. Step 1: Sample the percentages of statements in each category of a each available report card from a Dirichlet distribution. With parameters equal to the total number of events each category plus one. Step 2: Caclulate malarkey. From the sample report card percentages. Estimating the confidence intervals.
