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The town has already collected $4 million of a possible $13 million in extra money hidden from the budget process.
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UPDATED: Who’s Saying What About the Data?
As if their intention is to provide us with helpful examples for our arguments, the folks at FakeCheck have a new post that could serve as a classroom exercise for my earlier essay. I’ll address the substance of the argument elsewhere, but for my immediate purposes: What clues are there in the FakeCheck post that can help a reader judge its credibility? First, in keeping with the practice on that site (and the tendency of those who are likely behind it), the post is completely anonymous. The author wants to attack my credibility as if he or she is an expert on accounting, but who is it? Without knowing that, a reader can’t tell whether the author’s assertions about what’s true, false, obvious, normal, or unusual are anything more than politically convenient nonsense. Second, although attacking a specific comment of mine, the author provides no link so readers can look at the context and make sure that FakeCheck is not misrepresenting what was being said. Not surprisingly, the author is misrepresenting the conversation, which can be found in the comment section a post of mine on Anchor Rising-Ocean State Current. An anonymous commenter asked “if it is true that [my] numbers are missing a full …
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