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Originally Posted by Alex Wice
Wrong on all counts. Politifact does not claim to review every statement, and I do not claim that politifact reviews every statement.
Okay, except you said that > 4% of what Hitler said would be at least generically true, and then in your defense you quoted a Hitler speech containing lots of generically true things. A weird defense to use if you knew all along that generically true statements are not reviewed by politifact.
The offer still stands btw, if you want to give us like 4 Hitler statements politifact would rate as true. For example, something like "The Germans could have won WW1 in 1918", is that true, mostly true, half true, etc.?
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My claim is only that the politifact rating of someone is so weakly correlated to how often someone lies as to be almost useless (giving two examples of Bernie vs Hillary, and Trump vs Hillary)...
And you still don't understand how politifact works. It does not purport to correlate to 'how often someone lies'. They choose some small number of statements to rate, rates them, and adds up the percentages based on the sample of statements it rated, nothing else.