Hyperbole in news stories
Look, BBC, just because incidences of domestic violence in Scotland increased by 2% on days when the Scottish National football team lost, does not mean that incidents "soared", or that there was a "massive increase".

Especially not when there's a 4% margin of error in the results.

This is just the one incident that sticks most in my mind, because I actually complained about it. There are millions* of similar incidents.


_{*Yeah, I know, I did it on purpose}
( Thinker, Wed 7 May 2008, 11:58, Reply)