A couple of days ago, the Rasmussen survey group released poll results for the following question, "In order to support their own theories and beliefs about global warming, how likely is it that some scientists have falsified research data" Their results stated the following

According to their survey, 35 percent believed that it was "very likely," 24 percent thought it was "somewhat likely," 21 percent thought it was "not very likely," 5 percent thought it was "not likely at all" and 15 percent were unsure.

But, apparently this was not enough for Fox news, who in turn "falsified" the results (ironic, right) and stated in big bold letters the following in their news cast.


Here is a little tip for the people over at Fox news. I am in a Statistics class in high school, and the first thing that we learn when going over surveys and there responses is that, and I am quoting our book for this, " When interpreting polls, all results when calculated into percent form, should add up to about 100% when taking into consideration the % margin of error." Now if they had said something like, "This survey has a 20-25% margin of error" then this wouldn't be a problem, but the original data had no % error listed. The part that just makes you want to laugh is the fact that this data that they listed for the results on a poll asking of people think that scientists falsified data, and this data itself is falsified. I guess it is just one of those things that makes you think, "Wow, I know better than these morons, and they get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year"