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How Bing Manipulated Data To Give Obama Higher Marks On His SOTU Speech Than He Deserved
The Looking Spoon ^ | 2-13-13 | The Looking Spoon

Posted on 02/13/2013 4:17:59 PM PST by The Looking Spoon

Sometimes in school exams are graded on a curve so that students who should've failed don't.

Well, Bing graded Obama on a HUGE curve. Below is the partisan breakdown, but they did it on gender, and probably everything.

See the original raw data chart here, and the full infographic from Bing here.

Click the image to see a larger version.



TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: barackobama; bing; pulse; stateoftheunion

1 posted on 02/13/2013 4:18:08 PM PST by The Looking Spoon
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To: The Looking Spoon

But Bing has the better graphics on their home page.
Everyone knows that’s the best way to choose a search engine.


2 posted on 02/13/2013 4:24:02 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: The Looking Spoon

Progressives had good control of “old” media, but when “new” media came to be, they absolutely seized it lock, stock, and barrel.


3 posted on 02/13/2013 4:27:25 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: The Looking Spoon

One thing is interesting in both graphs: Independents and republicans are tracking very close together while democrats are inhabiting a completely different reality.


4 posted on 02/13/2013 4:31:17 PM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: humblegunner

I use “startpage.com”. They claim to not keep you IP address. But, who knows. Don’t bing or google or any of that other garbage like chrome etc.............. Of course, it they want you, they got you. LOL!


5 posted on 02/13/2013 5:46:14 PM PST by rktman (Live the oath you took or get out of office!)
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To: The Looking Spoon

Great! I turned off Google — well, insofar as one can —and switched to Bing. But they are pro-Bronco jerks, too?

Now where do I go?


6 posted on 02/13/2013 6:20:29 PM PST by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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To: The Looking Spoon
Indicated response during the speech and feedback NEVER got into positive numbers. Even if Dems rated it all positive the mix would still not allow for the indicated spikes.

Nonetheless, it's interesting to see that 'Pubs and Independents trended virtually together.

7 posted on 02/13/2013 6:33:01 PM PST by norton
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To: Bigg Red

Inbox Dollars...they pay you to search. Granted, .15 day is no biggie. But it is more than Google pays...


8 posted on 02/13/2013 6:33:52 PM PST by drinktheobamakoolaid (If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Bigg Red

DuckDuckGo, StartPage HTTPS


9 posted on 02/13/2013 7:09:31 PM PST by JABit (Another retired vet.)
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To: JABit

Thank you for the DuckDuck info. I have made it my default search engine now.

I had switched to Bing some time back because a FReeper recommended it. Now, we see this poll manipulation!

On top of that, I got an advertising mailer yesterday for Andersen windows. Just so happens I had been searching for information on windows and doors, several days before, while using Bing. :( Bye-bye, Bing.


10 posted on 02/14/2013 6:27:41 AM PST by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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