Look at this statistic. Damning isn’t it? There’s just one problem – there doesn’t seem to be a creditable source for it, despite it appearing in mainstream media. It appears to be fake news.
This brings together research and inclusion, so I wanted to know more. It's an apparently sound piece of evidence, and quoted in many – often respectable - places.
But always without a link to the original research. This is something I see quite a lot. It means there’s no evidence of how it was collected, with who, the questions asked or the tests conducted.
That’s the price of speed of information. That’s how the world operates. 24 hour rolling news is “never wrong for long”. Trouble is, that’s not how it works at work. If you’re gathering evidence for a proposal or to support a change of systems in the workplace, you can’t afford to be embarrassed by dodgy facts. You can’t simply print a correction at the bottom of page 16.
Found a killer stat? One that supports your case? One that inspires you to make changes? Somehow stats like this one have a habit of bouncing around being re-reported and re-parroted out. Just take time to go back to the original evidence, and satisfy yourself that it stands up.
inclusion research facts
Tuesday, 7 May 2019
Research and Fake News
Look at this statistic. Damning isn’t it? There’s just one problem – there doesn’t seem to be a creditable source for it, despite it appearing in mainstream media. It appears to be fake news.
This brings together research and inclusion, so I wanted to know more. It's an apparently sound piece of evidence, and quoted in many – often respectable - places.
But always without a link to the original research. This is something I see quite a lot. It means there’s no evidence of how it was collected, with who, the questions asked or the tests conducted.
That’s the price of speed of information. That’s how the world operates. 24 hour rolling news is “never wrong for long”. Trouble is, that’s not how it works at work. If you’re gathering evidence for a proposal or to support a change of systems in the workplace, you can’t afford to be embarrassed by dodgy facts. You can’t simply print a correction at the bottom of page 16.
Found a killer stat? One that supports your case? One that inspires you to make changes? Somehow stats like this one have a habit of bouncing around being re-reported and re-parroted out. Just take time to go back to the original evidence, and satisfy yourself that it stands up.
inclusion research facts
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