looks nice though!

stupid and hopelessly cult inducted.....the level of stupidity in their audience is sad, the exploitation of the stupid is plain evil, these are the minds of children they exploit.

for anything.

that would more or less jive with how i've seen poll results presented from time to time.

without digging into the actual poll numbers, one mathematically correct interpretation is "60% of poll respondents selected one of several disapproval categories, with 50% strongly disapproving."

either that or conservative viewers can't handle 2nd grade arithmetic, or maybe they just don't care.

It's typically a five-point scale, with "Disapproves" being a composite of the two bottom categories.

You can find the raw numbers here.
http://www.democracycorps.com/attachments/article/985/071614_DCOR_Senate_Battleground_FQ_EveryVoice.web.pdf

AND meant to look (at a glance) like a huge majority just hate Obama.

IOW - you're right, and the later # is a subset of the former.

Edited: Asked a question to which I later found an answer in thread...

You also disapprove. They are not independent.

I don't participate in polls, but if I ever do, i'll be sure to ask the pollster if any response will be included in more than one category.

While I understand your reasoning here, you have to admit this is disingenuous above and beyond looking plain stupid.

Shame that your average Fox viewer will miss the stupid. Disingenuous has too many syllables for him/her to even comprehend, sadly.

they've been sniffing his underwear since day one and reporting on what they smell so why would anyone expect a poll done by them to be anything but dirty undies shit stained piss dribbled opinions anyway. I know I don't

I wasn't comparing Obama to pantload ted, I was making light of the fact that fox noise is a less than a credible venue for an honest poll.

that most Faux viewers wouldn't see anything wrong with that graph. Hell they wouldn't even know that added up to 110%. (Remember we are dealing with idiots.)

The poll had 37-60 approve/disapprove

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/07/31/fox-newss-graphic-obama-extremely-extremely-unpopular/

Among the 37 approve, 22 strongly approve whereas among the 60 disapprove, 50 strongly disapprove.

Because they're real Americans, of course.

A real American is who:

• Watches FoxNews 24/7
• Thinks the first Native American was Virginia Dare
• Hates Obama and thinks all black males were born in Kenya
• Can't be bothered with facts like 2 + 2 = 4.

The type that puts retro-blame on Obama for the 2008 financial collapse and even 2005 the Katrina debacle while giving Bush a pass. Actually, "mindset" is too kind of a term since it implies having a mind to begin with.

They make them up.

Not sticking up for them, but according to "their" poll, 60% of them disapproved of Obama, but only 10% mildly. And they've left out the 40% who don't disapprove of Obama.

Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 6-3.

Just add House disapproval, Senate disapproval, Tea Party faction disapproval, GOP establishment disapproval, and what the heck just to maintain a level playing field throw in Democratic disapproval as well. Then repeat questions for "strongly" disapprove for each of these. President Obama's detractors would have their work cut out for themselves trying to match those numbers.

those who can count, and those who can't...

In some skewed poll, 60% disagreed (although I question that, but depending on see how the poll was worded...), 50% also checked off "strongly disagree", which might be not unreasonable (although I question that too - I think the actual number is about 30%), and it's unfair to double-count the population in tallying the result, but that didn't stop Fox, but positive matter (40%) consumes less weight than 60% of dark matter, and certainly more than 50% of dark-dark matter.

I think the real equation is:

Start with:

60% for
10% lightly against
30% strongly against

Then adjust for light/dark matter, and bubble-headed weight, and...

damn. High school math was so long ago. But I'm sure it works out somehow that 60% positive + 40% (comprised of 60% of light-negative - 50% of dark negative) adds up to 100%.

I'm too tired tonight but I'll bet 100% they're talking out of their assets.

They said there wouldn't be ANY math...

hate President Obama because they believe the shit fox "news" spews 24/7?! I'd hate Obama too if I were stupid enough to get sucked into fox's brainwashing techniques.

was actually doing it's job, Faux Noise would already be off the air for good. They will rush to judgement when a phone caller calls somebody an asshole, and the fines are devastating ( ON RADIO, and I AM LIVING PROOF!) if, gwad forbid you say something that may be construed as 'patriotism'.... but yet Faux can shamelessly beat the President with lies and acrimonious hatred.


So, FCC: go fuck yourselves.

as has been shown by several DUers. Time to retitle or retire this thread.

What do you mean it don't add up? Sounds like fuzzy math.

...unless someone can point to the narrative that went along with the graphics that said differently.

What is said was: 60% disapprove of the President's performance, of which 50% strongly disapprove.

(FWIW - Democracy Corps is a Democratic-leaning polling outfit.)

It IS what it says.... the graphic says simply that 60% disapprove and 50% strongly disapprove.

There is no explanation of subsets of any kind.

YOU are adding the relevant elements that make that graphic make sense, and checking the initial data shows your assumptions were correct.

But the graphic itself does not contain ANY info that supports your assumptions.

It was done deliberately to make the info look even more damaging that it actually is.... but with a "plausible denial" factor built in in case someone notices the graphic makes no sense.

It's called propaganda and misinformation. Fox News does it too many time for it to just be a boo-boo.

Except...it was on purpose....

They do it too many times for it to be just a mistake.

So it's not "sloppy" but intended and it is biased because it's purpose is to make things look worse than they are.

It is indeed still stupid.

Like...

40 % Approve - #% of which Strongly Approves
60 % Disapprove - 50% of which Strongly Disapproves.

Though yeah, I completely agree that they are complete and utter liars.

Sadly, I don't think they meant it that way. So, yep, their math is off.