CNN Distorts Study to Support Global Anti-Child Agenda

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Planet Infowars
February 10, 2014

CNN reporter Brooke Baldwin / Screengrab taken from YouTube.

A misleading report by CNN inferred a causal relationship from a study that only demonstrated a correlation.

The study found that couples who did not have children were happier than couples who did. Data was obtained comparing levels of happiness of couples with children to those without children. No manipulation of variables was made by the researchers.

In this study having kids/not having kids would need to be manipulated (Independent Variable) and happiness measured (Dependent Variable) in order to draw the causal conclusion found by CNN. The journalist Brooke Baldwin concluded from the study, “Want to have a happy marriage? Then don’t have kids.”

This statement is inaccurate as it concludes the study found that having kids causes unhappiness to couples.

Such a conclusion does not follow nor is inferred from this study, because no cause and effect relationship was established (variables were not manipulated, it was not an experiment). No temporal relationship was established (ie couple was happy, –> then had kids, –> then was no longer happy). No alternative explanations have been ruled out.

There was no control for extraneous variables, so it is likely that many other factors influenced the findings. Something else could have caused both happiness level and whether a couple had kids/no kids (personality, income level, culture, etc.), the relationship may have been reversed (being happy causes couples to not have kids), etc.

Manipulating variables, establishing temporal order, accounting for extraneous variables (establishing that the effects were not caused by something else) are all required in order to conclude a causal relationship.

This report is a distortion of the facts. Correlation does not mean causation goes the mantra well known by scientists and students.

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Pelosi Distorts July 4 To Celebrate “health Independence”

In a desperate effort to prop up an utterly unpopular law, Democrat hack and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi seeks to redefine Independence Day with a shameless Obamacare plug.

While Americans across the nation take time to reflect on the sacrifice made by our founders to grant us the freedom — such as it is — we enjoy today, Pelosi claims “we’ll also be observing health independence.”

She is referring, of course, to the abysmal and falsely labeled Affordable Care Act, which was unfortunately upheld by the Supreme Court about one year prior to her recent comments.

Without cracking a smile, which is admittedly tough given her penchant for cosmetic surgery, she said the law “captures the spirit of our founders.”

There is nothing in our Constitution on which she could possibly base that absurd allegation, but history has proven that Pelosi and her cohorts on the lunatic left care little about backing up their reckless rhetoric.

Obamacare offers the exact opposite of “health independence,” as those subjected to its coverage are completely at the mercy of federal regulators. Pelosi did not stop with the requisite propaganda in support of her party; she also threw in a few jabs aimed at the right.

“If Paul Revere were here today,” she speculated, “we would need someone like him to be running through the streets saying, ‘Sequester is coming!’”

Reckless spending is somehow equated with liberty to the faulty mind of a leftist like Pelosi. In that regard, it is no wonder she will be spending Independence Day expressing gratitude for the most bloated, wasteful, and unnecessary bill in American history.

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