Obfuscation-index: how many facts strategically omitted in a news article

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Does a news article

  • successfully implant a distorted impression in the reader’s mind1?
  • by hiding counter-narrative facts2?
  • thus transmit a desired, politically correct (PC) narrative?3

Our obfuscation index measures the success of one single news-cast in obfuscating counter-narrative facts and maintaining the PC narrative .

Our Brainwashing index measures the long term success in maintaining factually false, but politically correct beliefs.

We propose4 the [PC] obfuscation index5  to measure the extent to which media reporting covers up counter-narrative “racist” facts6. Does it distract the reader’s mind from un-PC “racist” or “sexist” facts7(that are relevant to the issue in discussion) and thus contribute to the Brainwashing index?

This quantitative measure8 of disinformation is value-free:

  • science minded free speech advocates find the obfuscation attempt disturbing: the omission of relevant true information with intent(?9) to deceive readers
  • the PC media rejoice about obfuscation result, measurable beliefs induced by successfully implanting misinformation in the reader’s mind,
  • A news article successfully distracts from all important facts that contradict the PC (politically correct) narrative? 100% Obfuscation!
  • The obfuscation index is usually well above zero, because obfuscating race of minority criminals and other “minority” failures is mandatory, by media ethics code10 and by virtue of the PC Gag Order .

    Our sample BBC article below successfully prevents the reader from knowing the following relevant, clearly uncontestable, facts

    1. Ahmaud Arbery was clearly the attacker. Though Arbery was pursued, in an attempted citizen arrest, it was Arbery who actively closed the last 20 meters/yards and attacked with punches and by grabbing the gun.
    2. Ahmaud Arbery was a felon with serious prior criminal records.
    3. There are likely but less certainly proved facts11 and the false beliefs due to long term media brainwashing12

    Obfuscation’s cover-up can be determined in 2 different short term ways, and its long term misinformation effect

    1. Obfuscation intent: by simple analysis of the text, its objective omission of truthful and full information and resulting objective cover-up
    2. Obfuscation result in reader’s mind:
      1. by inquiring the readers for both lack of knowledge and
      2. strength of counter-factual beliefs
        1. ignorance of facts with an open and curious mind is quite different from
        2. a righteous conviction that Ahmaud Arbery has no felony record and was hunted down and for sure did not attack anyone
    3. Long term obfuscation effects and definite brainwashing into deeply held false beliefs through repeated obfuscation and deception: long term media brainwashing and the deeply held counterfactual beliefs

    Standard social science questionnaires can test the depth of the readers’ knowledge of these facts. The reader might be simply ignorant of facts, or actually utterly repudiate such facts as totally wrong, and as racist.

    The [PC] cover-up index13 measures the extent to which media reporting obfuscates counter-narrative “racist” facts

    Obfuscation index can be for one individual reader, or an average for a group of readers.

    • 100% obfuscation or 100 cover-up means:
      media manages to perfectly mislead the reader and make her believe in the narrative
    • 0% obfuscation index means:
      readers are fully aware of all issues

    The questions are selected to target politically incorrect facts that the media would rather not tell you.

    The PC brainwashing-index measures the long term success of media mis-information.

    Summary – Repeating

    Does a media article induce false beliefs?  Using standard social science questionnaires, the amount of misunderstanding and deception can be easily quantified.

    Does the reader’s mental image of an event conform to the “narrative”, even if the facts are counter-narrative?

    Do the media successfully implant a “narrative”-conforming mental image into the reader’s mind? Or is the reader aware of relevant counter-narrative facts that Left like to hide (in order to avoid “racism” and “prejudice”)

    We can quantitatively measure the success of media indoctrination, the percentage if misinformation and misunderstanding of counter-narrative facts.

    We can quantitatively decide if the media deserve to be called “lying media”.

    Reading ONE news story, what percentage of media consumers have an awareness of #RacistFacts that #LyingMedia brazenly omit and distort? What percentage of the readers have a mental image of the described event, that is in clear disagreement with provable14 and highly relevant facts? Psychology’s scientific methodology can clarify this, with simple use of paper and pencil questionnaires15.

     

    Example research:

    Likert scales16 are indicated.

    Randomly assign people to two groups:

      1. Experimental group 1, read a typical deceptive media news article like ‘They Lynched Him’: Ahmaud Arbery’s Father on the Killing of His Son [Amren]
      2. Control group 2 is presented with full factual video information like the one presented in “They Lynched Ahmaud Arbery: MSM omissions, distractions, lies …

     

    The reader subjects must be fairly naïve regarding the case17.

     

    On a scale from –5 (totally disagree) to +5 (totally agree)18 answer the following questions

     

     

    1) Ahmaud Arbery was lynched -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5
    Disagree              Agree
    2) Ahmaud Arbery was jogging peacefully and shot for no reason -5  -4  -3  -2  -1  0  1  2  3  4  5
    Disagree                           Agree
    3) Ahmaud Arbery ran towards McMichael and punched him repeatedly -5  -4  -3  -2  -1  0  1  2  3  4  5
    Disagree                         Agree
    4) Ahmaud Arbery has serious prior criminal records? -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5
    Disagree            Agree

     

     

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    BBC’s dishonest, misleading reporting on Darren Wilson/ Michael Brown. An analysis

    Misleading readers 16 times in one single article! Michael Brown: Ferguson officer won’t be charged for 2014 killing |BBC <follows a cute adolescent photo of …Read More

     

    1. Lying Paypal: ashamed of kicking out Colin Flaherty – Colin Flaherty was kicked out of Paypal for disallowed #TrueSpeech about black violence. If you see an old video of his, with the old donation link PayPal makes no mention… …
    2. ‘Why is this black guy running?’: After Ahmaud Arbery’s killing, African Americans reconsider fitness routines – Omitted details in media reports cause grave misunderstandings in the reader. It seems the omissions are intentional, with bias according to anti-racist narrative and #PCGagOrder. a)  Anti-white discrimination is compulsory:… …
    3. “They Lynched Ahmaud Arbery: MSM omissions, distractions, lies”   – Lies start with word#2 in the title: no definition of ” lynching” fits the facts of the case. Ahmaud Arbery was just jogging, met McMichael, and shot TWICE (for jogging).… …

     

    Habitual criminality of Michael Brown, his parents and his Ferguson …

    https://human-stupidity.com/…/habitual-criminality-michael-brown-parents- whitewashed

    9 Nov 2014 … … over 5 felonies and misdemeanors in the last half hour before his death. … We are unaware of him being prosecuted for his recent crimes …

     

     

    What percentage of LONG TERM MSM consumers harbor factually false beliefs about

    • “minority” crime like Black mass shootings, Muslim child grooming gangs,
    • Black IQ averaging in the 70’s and 80’s 20
    • the extent, cost, dangers of affirmative action inequality
    • women’s athletic prowess reliably 10% below men’s performance
    • Average world IQ and mental age
    • black crime,  regarding  misleading #LyingMedia successfully implant factually incorrect narrative into the reader’s conscious and unconscious mind and cause the unstoppable leftward trend in voting, politics, institutions?

     

    • What percentage of media consumers is aware of brazenly omitted and distorted #RacistFacts
    • Reading one article with brazenly omitted and distorted #RacistFacts, what percentage
    • To what extent does the media consumer correctly understand #RacistFacts?

    Do misleading #LyingMedia successfully implant factually incorrect narrative into the reader’s conscious and unconscious mind and cause the unstoppable leftward trend in voting, politics, institutions?21  This can be

    #1: we test the impact of ONE article on the readers’ perception about #RacistFacts. Examples: 22

    From a leftist point of view, these measures of  media deception can be seen as measure of success in successful media indoctrination.

    Media mislead about #RacistFacts. Readers get mislead as to believe in the politically correct narrative

    Do media make readers inform readers of factual truth23? Or do media fill the reader’s brain with misleading narrative? The scientific method24 can decisively answer this.

    “Media transmit correct factual information to the readers’25 brain?”

    This null hypothesis can be tested using the scientific method for social sciences.

    Alternatively, we can quantitatively measure readers’ comprehension:

      • % of readers misunderstood
      • % of readers correct understanding

    Whenever media do not explicitly blatantly lie

    • they claim to just be “accidentally” omitting “irrelevant” facts
    • Sometimes media admit to omitting racist facts in obedience of anti-racist media gag orders 26

Accuracy of media information:
media consumption imparts what  %_correct or %_incorrect understanding of #RacistFacts

    • Subjects read a MSM text27
  • Find out subjects’ understanding of what has happened.
    1. Test their understanding with multiple choice test, using drawings, videos, or text choices28

    • We predict misunderstandings in the range of 20% to 95% 30.

       

          1. So the null-hypothesis “subjects are correctly informed and do NOT have misunderstandings about
            the true facts about what really happened” can be rejected with 99.999999999 %
            certainty
          2. Rather we can show effect sizes of deception in the range of 20 to
            99%

      • Carefully test how do subjects fill in the gaps, the omissions?
        1. Can they imagine that there was violent resistance to arrest,
        2. violence against a cop,
        3. a dangerous felony high speed chase,
        4. omitted sections of the video,
        5. prior commission of a felony as cause for arrest,
        6. prior violent crime convictions
      • Proper test design must be followed, as outlined in social science courses on scientific method and test design.
        1. Of course, it is better if we can find some hermits or people from down-under isolated from all related news,
        2. It is hard to find subjects that have no knowledge of the Rodney King beating, George Floyd death, or Ahmaud Arbery shooting.
        3. BUT actually, only those who heard some #RacistFacts and were exposed to #TrueSpeech must be eliminated.
        4. Those who were only exposed to MSM propaganda will just re-read what they read before

       

       

       

      We measure

      • Subjects read a media article. Questionnaires can test if the readers understand
      • After exposure to a media article or video, we can test if the subjects’ understanding coincides with factual truth
      • % readers with % factually wrong comprehension: Quantitative test of media misinformation.

       

       

       

      Other tentative titles for this post31

       

      GDI: Global disinformation index

      In spite of the nice looking name

      GDI: Global disinformation index

      this is part of the global PC disinformation, as can be easily seen from their blog posts documented by us here

      disinformationindex.org/blog/  32

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      Narrative protection in media reporting: Quantitative measure of %success obfuscating undesirable facts

      Media reports protect [PC] “narrative”: we measure % success in obfuscation of counter-narrative facts

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      FOOTNOTES

      1. a) unarmed innocent Black killed by bad white for no reason b) this happens all the time
      2. a) Black “victim” ran 20 meters towards shooter,
        b) “unarmed” “victim” had attacked, repeatedly punched bad white killer, and tried to wrestle a gun away
        c) “innocent Black victim” had several felony convictions
      3. a) another bad white killed an innocent Black; b) this happens frequently
      4. Please comment below if you know of other similar projects of quantification of mis-information. In spite of the nice looking name

        GDI: Global disinformation index

        this is part of the global PC disinformation, as can be easily seen here

        disinformationindex.org/blog/

      5. or cover-up index, or misinformation index

      6. Scientific honesty requires to tell about alternative possibilities, interpretations, hypotheses.
        Honesty: #1 necessity for a modern scientific society 
        Age of Enlightenment for Social Sciences Requires Scientific Honesty
        Scientific Honesty & integrity compromised by PC racism taboo
        Postmodernism: Denial of Objective Reality and of Facts is Dishonest
        The Racism Exception to Civilized and Honest Behavior #1: Media …

        We will not obsess if a fact is clearly proven, or just likely, or just a possibility. If the reporting omits an uncertain possibility, or totally obfuscates likely, or possible, events, it still is successful obfuscation.

      7. Forbidden to mention negative facts about “minorities”, to avoid stirring up prejudices[12] [13]

      8. this measure is not as concise as a natural science measure, because we need to agree upon a list of PC-“undesirable”-but-true facts
        https://wp.me/pakxfR-kT

      9. the omission can be objectively shown, we will not be distracted and sidelined by arguments about “intent”

    Forbidden to say anything negative about minorities, to avoid stirring up prejudices

    It is not permissible to tell the whole truth. Journalists, police, teachers, every citizen, all are REQUIRED TO LIE: because the WHOLE TRUTH “stirs up prejudices against minorities”.  For over half a century, we have eagerly embraced this gag order. “Black kills White” must not be uttered.

    • Prejudice is correct, mostly:
      Research on Stereotype accuracy shows that prejudice is frequently correct, and that humans evolved to be good intuitive statisticians

    The AP Stylebook even requires Media to remove true facts about ethnicity of a criminal, as soon as the suspect gets apprehended.

    “For suspects sought by the police or missing person cases using police or other credible, detailed descriptions. Such descriptions apply for all races. The racial reference should be removed when the individual is apprehended or found.” [Associated Press. The Associated Press Stylebook 2015 (p. 225). Basic Books. Kindle Edition.]

  • Ahmaud Arbery refused to heed requests to stop and wait for police to arrive; Ahmaud Arbery’s jogging habits were potentially doubtful, certainly his alleged regular jogging habits were not proven: he might have been wearing boots and not have jugged before his trespass;
  • Blacks are proven commit vastly more crime than whites; Black defiance even of lawful police orders is considered legitimate (black privilege)//prior BLM innocent idol’s stories like Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown “hands-up-don’t-shoot” stories were all debunked
  • or PC obfuscation index
  • other methods of quantitative social science research can be used for further clarification, like videos, reaction times, brain waves, polygraph analysis, videos

  • Using Likert Scales in Psychology

    On a survey or questionnaire, a typical Likert item usually takes the following format:1

    1. Strongly disagree
    2. Disagree
    3. Neither agree nor disagree
    4. Agree
    5. Strongly agree

    […]Because Likert items are not simply yes or no questions, researchers are able to look at the degree to which people agree or disagree with a statement.

    Likert scales are often used in political polling in order to obtain a more nuanced look at how people feel about particular issues or certain candidates.

    However, as with other forms of assessment, Likert scales can also be influenced by the need to appear socially desirable or acceptable.2 People may not be entirely honest or forthright in their answers or may even answer items in ways to make themselves appear better than they really are. This effect can be particularly pronounced when looking at behaviors that are viewed as socially unacceptable.

     

    Likert Scale – an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

     

    Likert scales are well known in attitude measurement, where they are used to ask … The previous studies all rely on Likert scale measures or questions where …

  • If subjects are “tainted” by prior knowledge about the case, no matter if true or false, then we would not be measuring short term single case of media mis-information but be measuring long term effects as described here

    For our research we must use a very recent case, or a case from other locations that is not known to the subjects

  • -5  -4  -3  -2  -1  0  1  2  3  4  5

    • -5  Strongly disagree
    • -3  Disagree
    • 0  Neither agree nor disagree
    • +3  Agree
    • + 5  Strongly agree

  • Police: Man brought gun to high school basketball game

    Officer in Brunswick stops 19-year-old man with loaded gun


    Glynn County Detention Center booking photo of Ahmaud Avery

    BRUNSWICK, Ga. – A quick acting police officer in Brunswick stopped a teenager with a loaded gun from entering a high school basketball game Tuesday night.

    Police arrested 19-year-old Ahmaud Marquez Avery (pictured below), who is not a student at Brunswick.[Source]

     

    Ahmaud Marquez Arbery, who was 19 at the time, was indicted Jan. 28 for allegedly carrying a Big Bear .380 caliber pistol with him when attempting to make entry into the Dec. 3, 2013 basketball game.

    Glynn County School police said at the time that an officer noticed a gun in Arbery’s waistband, and he ran when the officer attempted to stop him. Officers put the campus in a lockdown mode during the foot chase.

    In the course of the chase, one school resource officer fell and fractured his hand.

    Arbery is now facing charges in Glynn County Superior Court of carrying a weapon within certain school areas, carrying a weapon without a license and three counts of obstructing an officer.[Source]

  • vs. white vs East Asian

  • Votes rigged brazenly, by omitting facts that can be EXPLOITED by the

    The voter needs to be kept in the dark in order to “avoid prejudice”. If told the truth , the voters might vote for xenophobia and segregation. Sorely lacking is an …

  • ‘Why is this black guy running?’: After Ahmaud Arbery’s killing, African Americans reconsider fitness routines

    Omitted details in media reports cause grave misunderstandings in the reader. It seems the omissions are intentional, with bias according to anti-racist narrative and #PCGagOrder. …Read More »

  • Highly likely stories or factual truth:

    We don’t want to discuss and nitpick much about absolute truth beyond reasonable doubt. In most hoaxes, narrative collapses, and misleading stories the alternative “right wing” “racist” version is highly probably and totally covered up by MSM.

    Blatant media dishonesty caused the LA Riots with its 63 deaths, 2383 injured. The first 13 seconds were quietly omitted from the viral video, in …Read More »

    1. Scientific Method in Social Sciences:
      Science seeks to find theories that describe, explain and predict real world phenomena. Logic, mathematics, statistics, rigorous research methods are the foundations of science.
    2. Anti-Racism is Anti-Science:
      Scientists honestly seek to find parsimonious, simple true theories to correctly explain natural phenomena. Logical consistency and generally agreed to mathematical test criteria are required.

  • or radio listeners’ or TV spectators’

  •  

    Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s worst lie – Washington Times

     

    Aug 23, 2019 – Pinocchio Warren Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times … Warren tweeted: “5 years ago Michael Brown was murdered by a white … The false “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative triggered waves of riots, looting, …

     

    ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ One of Biggest Lies of 2015 …

     

    Dec 14, 2015 – Washington Post fact checker (yes, sometimes “fact”-checker) Glenn Kessler has released his list of “the biggest Pinocchios of 2015” — and …

     

    Washington Post Introduces ‘Bottomless Pinocchio’ Factcheck …

    The Washington Post Fact Checker has introduced a new dishonesty rating … strode through the protests and squared up to federal agents and did a series of … It might sound silly at first, but what makes this 5 quart pot special is this: it has a … Don’t forget to check out our coupon site to find deals from Macy’s, Walmart, …

     

    ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Movement Built On False Rumors …

    Mar 17, 2015 – NPR’s Melissa Block interviews Washington Post opinion writer Jonathan Capehart about his column, ” ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot‘ Was Built On A …

  • % erroneous belief in false narrative

    % success in misleading

    % brainwashing success

    Brainwashing index

    Narrative success

    Narrative collapse

     

    • How misleading are media? Quantitative testing of % media deception. #1 Short term deception
    • How misleading are media? Quantitative measure of % media deception. #1 Short term deception
    • How misleading are media? Quantitative measure of % media deception. (#1 Short term deception)
    • Quantitative analysis of readers’ % misunderstanding of racist facts to prove deceptive media reporting
    • Quantitative analysis of readers’ % misunderstanding to prove deceptive media reporting
    • Quantitative analysis of readers’ % misunderstanding induced by deceptive media reporting
    • Percent readers’ misunderstanding of facts: Quantitative measure of media deception/accuracy
    • Deceptive media reporting: quantitative proof is easy with scientific method
    • Quantitative analysis of misleading media reporting: easily done
    • Quantitative analysis of misleading media reporting: how to test media accuracy

     

     

     

    Media accuracy:

    • % misunderstanding. Quantitative test of media deception.
    • % misunderstanding. Quantitative test of media misinformation.
    • % readers misinformed

  • Main stream meadia as beacons of truth telling

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