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Fighting Brandolini's Law with Sampling
y Hurlburt - July 8, 2025 “But Don’t All Politicians Lie?” In 2015, Angi Drobnic Holan published a wonderful article titled “All Politicians Lie. Some Lie More Than Others.” In it, she makes the case that while all politicians lie, there are meaningful differences in how often and how severely they do so.
For example, perhaps Ben Carson has a higher rate of lying than Marco Rubio because PolitiFact simply scrutinized him more closely. We don’t check absolutely everything a candidate says, but focus on what catches our eye as significant, newsworthy or potentially influential. Exaggerating (saying “tens of thousands” when the number was 13,000) Making a broad, unverifiable claim about historic trends Using the term “99%” too casually
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