{"id":46826,"date":"2014-09-02T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46826"},"modified":"2014-10-19T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T21:22:05","slug":"the-fact-check-ill-wait-patiently-for-mprs-poligraph-feature-to-get-around-to-doing-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46826","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cFact-Check\u201d I\u2019ll Wait Patiently For MPR\u2019s \u201cPoligraph\u201d Feature To Get Around To Doing, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Claim<\/strong>:\u00a0 Every weekend for the past forty years, Garrison Keillor has closed his “News from Lake Wobegone” segment by claiming all the men are strong, all the women are good-looking, and all the children are above-average”.<\/p>\n

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But we wanted to know – is it true?\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Evidence<\/strong>: In Keillor’s favor, we note that not only is his claim – like Jeff Johnson’s statement <\/a>that Governor Dayton is “in trouble” – subjective, but it is in fact dramatic license, a tag line to a series of fictional essays.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, the winner of the 2014 World’s Strongest Man competition <\/a>is \u017dydr\u016bnas Savickas, of Lithuania.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The world’s foremost empirical test of female beauty is the Miss Universe pageant – and the most recent winner<\/a>, in 2013, was Mar\u00eda Gabriela de Jes\u00fas Isler Morales of Venezuela.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And since Minnesota stopped requiring graduation testing in 2013, it’s impossible to empirically say what “average” is, or whether Lake Wobegone’s children – fictional though they may be – are above it.<\/p>\n

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The Verdict<\/strong> – So since neither the world’s strongest man nor most beautiful woman resides in Lake Wobegone, and there is no means to measure the children, we give this claim a rating of “Misleading”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Claim:\u00a0 Every weekend for the past forty years, Garrison Keillor has closed his “News from Lake Wobegone” segment by claiming all the men are strong, all the women are good-looking, and all the children are above-average”. But we wanted to know – is it true?\u00a0 The Evidence: In Keillor’s favor, we note that not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,130,230],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-46826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-the-fact-check-scam","tag-mngov-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46826"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48261,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46826\/revisions\/48261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}