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The Gist

Something in the Water

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, first we've got misleading statistics.  In 2016, Art Cullen wrote a series of editorials for the Storm Lake Times, a small newspaper in Iowa, uncovering the murky depths of a fight between local and state governments about water pollution. They followed the money, and discovered a fight funded by agricultural corporations, and ended up winning the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Cullen's new book is Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope From a Heartland Newspaper.  In the Spiel, gubernatorial races. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

From spending the day on crystal clear waters, soaking up the sun, to watching it set.

0:07.4

Chill, glass and hand over a sparkling waterfront.

0:11.4

Tampa Bay makes the most of the Florida sunshine, long pass sundown.

0:15.9

With so much to see and do, enjoy a sun-filled getaway to Tampa Bay in the gorgeous Gulf Coast.

0:22.1

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0:29.9

The following recording may contain explicit language.

0:32.9

I can't get more explicit than May.

0:35.7

Let's just say it may.

0:36.9

It's Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018.

0:43.6

From Slate, it's the Gestine Mike Pasca.

0:45.6

And let us use this time together, you and I, to talk about some misleading statistics.

0:50.1

It's no one's fault.

0:51.3

I don't think that many people are consciously using these statistics wrong.

0:54.9

But there is a certain kind of statistic that is said to illustrate a situation

0:59.7

but it really upfuse skates.

1:01.6

Okay, enough with the assinants.

1:03.1

I will now be tangible.

1:04.7

Let's use this one stat that you've heard a lot.

1:07.2

Let's use it as the way into the stat I really want to talk about.

1:10.4

And our introductory stat is income inequality.

1:14.3

Income inequality has grown in the US.

1:16.8

That's true and that is a bad thing.

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