This week marks 10 years of Fact Check at the ABC and the 600 verdicts offer an insight into our political system, writes RMIT ABC Fact Check's Matt Martino.
Contested or controversial claims are far more likely to be fact checked than uncontroversial ones. This isn’t meant to be a representative sample of politicians’ speech.
I actually think that graph is much less useful than the other ones shown further down the article. A blunt three-point scale has nowhere near the necessary nuance compared to the full 9-point one. And the fact that it breaks apart median and mean is pretty handy too. For example we can see that Christian Porter, Clive Palmer, and Pauline Hanson occasionally say things that are very true (enough to bring up their mean) but that the majority—as in literally, at least half of the things that have been checked—are 100% made up, the worst possible score.
One Nation and UAP, what a disgrace.
It is depressing to see that no one is near at least 70% green
Contested or controversial claims are far more likely to be fact checked than uncontroversial ones. This isn’t meant to be a representative sample of politicians’ speech.
Good point
I actually think that graph is much less useful than the other ones shown further down the article. A blunt three-point scale has nowhere near the necessary nuance compared to the full 9-point one. And the fact that it breaks apart median and mean is pretty handy too. For example we can see that Christian Porter, Clive Palmer, and Pauline Hanson occasionally say things that are very true (enough to bring up their mean) but that the majority—as in literally, at least half of the things that have been checked—are 100% made up, the worst possible score.