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1 Postprocessing politifact.com reports In reviewing political statements politifact.com defines a 6-step scale For its Truth-O-Meter ™. The sierrafoot.org bar chart for Average Degree of Truth Uses the 0-5 numeric encoding for this scale. Levels are:  5: True  4: Mostly True  3: Half True  2: Mostly False  1: False  0: Pants on Fire

2 Average Degree of Truth in campaign and advocacy statements 3.08 2.15 3.29 2.21

3 Flagrant-Falsehood Rate percentage of source’s statements classified as False or Pants-On-Fire

4 How frequent and how severe are attacks in campaign and advocacy statements?

5 How many statements were made and reviewed? Number of statements made, chosen for review, or both? 61 122 38 34

6 Flagrant Falsehood Counts Number of False and Pants on Fire Ratings 12 46 6 11

7 Rating Counts, 2 Classes Derived from 187 Reviews by PolitiFact.com


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