Asklemmy

43939 readers

384 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

423

What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by 6mementomori@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

317 comments fedilink hide all child comments

What would be some fact that, while true, could be told in a context or way that is misinfomating or make the other person draw incorrect conclusions?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] __forward__@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wrong, a mortality of 94.5% has been shown not even close to 100%.

[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One could say that people who haven't died yet don't have a cause of death yet so they can't be counted.

[–] __forward__@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe we can agree on "100% of people who died consumed dihydrogen monoxide beforehand".

[–] Ilikecheese@vlemmy.net 7 points 1 year ago

Except for the ones that didn’t.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Please show me the data showing the data on pre-1900s populations proving that 100% of them consumed dihydrogen monoxide. You can't do it.