In academia, one of the greatest concerns with statistical studies is the danger of “confirmation bias” or “myside bias.” A desire to prove a point can lead to a blindness to opposing data or information. This week, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) repeatedly demonstrated the scourge of statistical studies with spectacular and embarrassing success.
Klobuchar released a chart before Thanksgiving to blame President Donald Trump for rising consumer costs. The only problem is that the chart showed that the skyrocketing costs occurred under former President Joe Biden. Klobuchar focused on the short period on the chart representing Trump’s second presidency, while ignoring the soaring costs under his predecessor.
What is most notable is that just the week before, Klobuchar committed the same error, associating rising energy costs with Trump, who saw energy costs soar under Biden. The response was withering:
Confirmation bias has been previously prevalent among politicians like Klobuchar. Of course, many simply do not care if the statistical claims are true in advancing their immediate political agenda. However, many can fall victim to their own desire for facts to be true and the bias can actually increase with more information:
“Worryingly, when the politicians were given more pieces of information on performance, they actually performed worse, relying more heavily on their prior attitudes. That means the issue cannot simply be addressed by relying on civil servants to provide more or better evidence for policy making – especially since civil servants are not immune from motivated reasoning themselves.”
For Klobuchar, the charts proved an absolute face planting. However, in our largely siloed news market, many citizens will receive such claims without seriously reviewing the underlying chart or data.
The irony is that, for those who did review the data, the claim only resulted in highlighting the countervailing message put out by the White House.
That is the pesky problem with trend charts. As Adlai Stevenson noted, “we can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.” That “path” was clearly laid out, and then ignored, by Sen. Klobuchar.
UPDATE There are multiple independent media sites on the Internet that have pointed out Klobuchar’s glaring and political error.
Guess what. SILENCE, CRICKETS from MSM/legacy networks.
Rush Limbaugh – The True Story of Thanksgiving – Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/11/rush-limbaugh-true-story-of_0557393532.html
“The only problem is that the chart . . .” (JT)
The moral is this story is:
The Left is really good at doctoring videos. And really bad at doctoring charts.
Doctoring? There is no mention that the chart was doctored. Or any videos.
You’re splitting proverbial hairs. The data was misdirected to foster a false premise. While not specifically it is misrepresentation. That’s what most us who have a least one foot on solid ground call lying. In essence, it is a “doctoring” of sorts to deceive and misdirect.
How tiresome it is that I constantly have to remind otherwise highly educated people that “data” is the PLURAL for “datum.” Thus, your sentence SHOULD have read: “The data WERE misdirected…”
And before you reply “Picky, picky, picky…”, YES, I acknowledge that I AM very picky, so save it!
DrZee,
Have you ever kissed a girl? Asking for a friend.
How tiresome it is that I constantly have to remind otherwise highly educated people that “data” is the PLURAL for “datum.”
After being obligated to get up to and through fourth year statistical analysis, I guess I meet your criteria for being highly educated and I recognize the grammar error that causes you a statistical Midol Moment.
For my part, I find it tiresome that there are so many highly educated people who drop their guts and become Karens when the meaning and intent of the sentence to convey a message does so successfully with about 99.9% of those reading it.
JUST another
Embarrassing
DEM
JUST another
Embarrassing
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Klobuchar released a chart before Thanksgiving to blame President Donald Trump for rising consumer costs. The only problem is that the chart showed that the skyrocketing costs occurred under former President Joe Biden.
Just more proof Democrats are economically illiterate, and mostly just stupid.
Your comment reeks of ignorance and idiocy. You must one of those PhD’s who dominate this blog.
You’re certainly not.
The Dems just know their audience.
$789 in 2025 from $780 in 2024 is 1.1%… not 11%… whoops.
Math is hard (and racist).
Ayn Rand writes on the policies of the left.
“The greater the spread of misery, of injustice, of vicious inequality throughout the
world, the more frantic their pursuit—which is one demonstration of
the fact that there is no such thing as a benevolent passion for equality
and that the claim to it is only a rationalization to cover a passionate
hatred of the good for being the good.”
We now have over one hundred years of the application of the progressive theology as proof
that it only has caused misery and death for those they say that they are trying to help.
Their favorite tactic is to make you fear one thing or the other.
Somehow they continue to believe that success is just around the corner.
Their excuse is that you have to break a few eggs and heads to make an egg and brains omelet.
Their authoritarian fingerprints are everywhere around the world and cannot be denied.
What needs to happen now is to recognize the difference between the awoke and the awake.
Get offg the site you drunk.
Hey Ano
Get offg the site you drunk.
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Learn to spell. LOL
What college did you attend?
Hollywood Upstairs School of Law.
Hey Ano
(Get offg the site you drunk.)
Learn to spell.
What college did you attend?
DustOff,
Would you look at that weirdo, commenting at 3:49AM!
Here are some more funny X posts making mince meat out of klobuchar
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maga-roasts-dem-senator-accidentally-132927664.html
(notice how the Mediaite author of the article tries to cover for Klobuchar by calling it “accidental.”)
Trump has just announced that he is going to pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez.
Who is this person you may ask ??
He is the former President of Honduras who was extradited to the US in 2024 and convicted of smuggling 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.
That is 400 TONS OF COCAINE, that probably killed tens if not hundreds of thousands of Americans.
He is currently serving a 45 year sentence in federal prison.
DON’T TRY TO TELL ME THAT TRUMP IS FIGHTING A WAR AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKERS.
There is a very obvious question here.
How much did Hernandez and his associates in the cartel pay Trump for this pardon ????
Probably hundreds of millions of dollars.
Good for the President
*. Happiest holidays to one and all. Enjoy your families you have them. ♥
^^^ if you have them…
Move over Klobuchar: DJT just declared all Biden’s autopen stunts void. Hold on to your popcorn.
Ketanji, can you hear me?
Hunter, can you hear me??
Hunter’s pardon was genuine. The others maybe not.
I knew Klobuchar was an idiot when she started palling around with John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
I knew Klobuchar was an Idiot when she opened her mouth!!
*. She’s pointing out its the fault of business. She doesn’t care about Biden years because business wasn’t expected to do well for consumers. She’s interested in DJT failure to correct business.
How are dividends, salary packages, employee lay offs, infrastructure of utilities doing. Where is the failure exactly . It is a failure if consumers aren’t paying bills. Would that be a loss?
^^^ PG&E for instance dividends are low due to wildfires. I’ll bet there’s non-payment payment.
Ok, thanks
^^^ lawsuit pay out 13 billion by PG&E for Paradise fires. Edison has admitted fault in southern Cali fires due to faulty equipment. Yes, utility bills are going up.
What’s the sell rate on those? Ms Klobuchar, are utilities imploding due to idiot management?
PGE puts equipment in the field to provide electricity as a state-regulated electric utility per PUC law.
Extremely high wind, as an Act of God, blows limbs into the equipment, causing the explosion of a transformer, starting a fire, and spreading it rapidly across large areas.
The corrupt, singular, American-failure judicial branch blames PGE, not the Act of God.
If California wants trees and shrubs pruned, it can have its public works department perform that task.
All sane homeowners obtain fire insurance.
Why didn’t the glorious CalFire put the damn fires out?
Because the fires constituted an intractable Act of God.
Blame the PGE shareholders, steal their value to pay for an Act of God, put the company in bankruptcy, and destroy the stock.
Why? Because PGE and its shareholders have “DEEP POCKETS.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Brilliant, comrades, simply brilliant.
PG&E let the hooks on the insulators chew through the supports on the insulators from metal-on-metal wear over decades. Eventually one insulator support let go, dropping a live high-voltage (8,000 to 10,000 Volts) to the ground where it initiated a fire. There are photos of the support hooks, originally nearly an inch thick, with 3/4 of inch deep grooves cut into them.
Caused by an Act of God—the catalyst—in the form of extremely and historically high winds.
And that did not happen the day before.
Those numbers you quoted are considered medium voltage
Anon, I’m actually from planet earth. There are no wooden poles anymore. There aren’t shrubs and brush and trees growing near roads and so much more.
The cause of at least one of the fires, it was claimed, was tree limbs impacting a transformer.
The actual cause was extremely and historically high winds.
The corrupt, singular, American-failure judicial branch blames PGE, not the Act of God.
The corrupt Marxist Democrats, who created the conditions for these fires are where the blame lies for this – it wasn’t the courts who created these regulations.
The overwhelming singular failure of the American republic rights and freedoms experiment has been voters allowing the continued existence of the vile and violent, seditious DNC as seen in California, and their equally vile members like George/X/Anonymous.
The Democrats who loved Chief Justice Taney telling them their Darkies were just a different breed of farm animal, now attempt to blame the chaos they’ve created on the Supreme Court, not themselves.
Not to mention the regulatory “state…”
It seems unrealistic, to say the least, to suggest that whoever put this out there – whether it was Senator Klobuchar herself or a member of her staff – was unaware that it was misleading and totally ignored the national disaster of the Biden years. Whoever it was, was well aware but it served their political purpose anyway.
Hello, Minnesota calling …
In Other News: “Amy Klobuchar declares smoking to be healthy because ‘More Doctors Smoke Camels than Any Other Cigarette'”
~+~
https://youtu.be/gCMzjJjuxQI
Let’s see if I get this straight. You limit the production and transportation of oil and the cost of fuel that heats the homes of millions in northeastern states goes up. What follows is a late payments on utilities.
Hard to understand? There is some good news for the future. Forecast: While current data shows a rise, some forecasts predict lower average energy prices for the upcoming year due to factors like increased global production and lower crude oil prices. Hmm? Save the world from global warming and let the peasants just lower the thermostat and worry about having their utilities cut off. Just shut up and wrap that baby in another blanket. Grandma doesn’t do well in the cold you say. Well thats just tough luck isn’t it. Just buy her some more Mucinex. Don’t you understand that you have to do your part to SAVE THE WORLD SAVE THE WORLD SAVE THE WOOORLD!!! Klobuclown she be very funny girl.
What follows is a late payments on utilities. Hard to understand? Price goes up, NE citizens do not pay or are late. Please tell me you’re a noble prize economist and the masses can’t understand your genius.
How ignorant and stupid can you possibly be? Yeah, you really thought that through.
Lets, see Anonymous, it doesn’t take a genius or having a degree in Economics to understand the forces of supply and demand. All of us learned about it in Junior High School. You must have had your head on the desk during that lesson because you are not capable of thinking it through due to your lack of education on the subject. Why do you continue to sacrifice your intelligence on the alter of I must be correct no matter what? Why do you remain so afraid that you might be wrong that you have to present a counter argument on every subject even when such a thing as supply and demand has been a well known quantity for a very long time in the study of Economics? When winning takes precedence over fact there is a problem. Introspection might be the cure you need.
I didn’t learn about it until a sophomore at university.
Degree huh? Sure fooled us.
Different anonymous here –
Supply and demand operate when there are competing suppliers and the ability for the buyers to walk away. In many areas of the country and in many industries, neither is the case.
Think you can buy pork to save money over high beef prices? Meat packers are like, nope, doesn’t matter what the actual pork or beef supply is like, just that the typical consumer has no other access. If the price of beef goes up the price of pork goes up even though the price paid to farmers doesn’t change. Sadly, a million people in NYC aren’t going out to Farmer Brown to order up a half-cow to store in their freezer.
It also presumes there is no collusion. For example, even when the supply of oil hasn’t changed but there is some item in the news that might affect future availability the price of already refined gasoline goes up; once that uncertainty has passed without any disruption the price of gasoline does not immediately drop; everyone inches it slowly back down and it works because the demand is nearly inelastic.
“If the price of beef goes up the price of pork goes up . . .”
Over the last year, beef prices are up some 15%; pork prices about *1.5%*.
Care to try again with your detached-from-reality Keynesian economics?
Well Sam you really should use documentation if you’re going to go for the jugular.
Care to try again with your attached -to-reality Keynesian economics?
“. . . use documentation . . .”
Or you could make the effort yourself. Like I did.
Get back to us when you’ve managed to pass econ 1.
No the Bee does not toe an ideological line, which is required by progressives and leftists, which explains why you can’t recognize satire without boundaries. Try it for yourself you might find it refreshing, esp when you get kicked out of the tribe and the daily Two Minutes Hate of the required Echo Chamber narrative reenforcement.
The majority of oil that was affected during the Biden administration was heavy/sour crude, an oil that isn’t useful for fuel or home heating because it’s got too much long-chain hydrocarbons or sulfur. Instead the US exports that oil and imports light/sweet crude for refining into fuel.
The first step in thinking through is to have the factual information.
There are a lot of really wealthy people in positions to goose prices to make a candidate looking to regulate them look bad in order they have a better opportunity to screw the little people – and it seems to be working as the little people bent over and declined use of lubricant.
The first step in thinking through is to have the factual information. Good idea, where’s yours?
The factual information is that there were several refineries on the Gulf Coast designed to refine heavy crudes into gasoline for export. These crudes were — yes — IMPORTED from Mexico and Venezuela. Just floated across the Gulf.
But the supply of these heavy crudes dried up. No problem, they could be replaced by heavy Albertan crudes via the… Keystone XL! Which Dementia Joe decided to kill, once and for all.
Confirmation bias? Since Turley went on the MAGA payroll, this entire blog consists of nothing but MAGA confirmtion bias– unwarranted and hypocritical attacks on Democrats, like today’s serving, and ignoring the real and dangerous scandals of Trump and Republicans, all to pander to his ever-shrinking base and provide a platform for them to mutually spout whatever BS MAGA media is putting out that day. It’s pathetic really, but Turley, here’s a little free advice: you really ought to read Rick Wilson’s excellent book: “Everything Trump Touches Dies”. Consider all of those who have been thrown under the bus once they decide to stop worshipping at the altar of King Donald and decide that they stand for something bigger, more altruistic–MTG being the latest for having the audacity to be empathetic to women who were sexually abused as young girls and to push for disclosure of the entire Epstein files. Once he’s gone, which can’t be soon enough for most of us, Turley will no longer serve any purpose. No one will be paying you to keep spouting the daily MAGA slop. You can’t say you weren’t warned.
Ok, you win. Now explain what you got. Thank you.
Nothing from you.
No, I mean you win the Americas, democrats. Explain what you got and how its incredibly better. Thank you.
Obvious why you are Anonymouse
The Truth hurts doesn’t it?
The kids are back…
Anonymous in her wisdom said that there was no way that Trump could win.
Anonymous must be very sad that even Democrats are turning out saying that her boy girlfriends can no longer let their dong hang down or stand up in girls locker rooms. It must be devastating to Anonymous that Larry Summers who was the head of the Treasury Department under Bill Clinton resigned and apologized because the Epstein files revealed that he was asking Epstein for advice on how to cheat on his wife. It must be devastating to Anonymous that illegal crossings at the border have come to a screeching halt. It must be devastating to Anonymous that these are confirmed facts and have nothing to do with bias. It must be devastating to Woodworm. See C.S. Lewis “The Srewtape letters”
Her apprenticeship is not going well.
“Anonymous in her wisdom said that there was no way that Trump could win.”
You sure do get testy when other commenters write smarter than you.
It’s what you said. There is no way that Trump can win. Are you now denying that you said it?
How about instead if other commenters write smarter than you you could say other commenters respond more intelligently than you. Up your game.
You sure do get testy when other commenters write smarter than you.
You just proved it again.
ANON sure isn’t smarter than other commenters! You prove it daily
“Anonymous in her wisdom said that there was no way that Trump could win.”
Many people overestimated how smart Republicans as a mob really are. God fearing Americans voting for a guy who has used the Deadly Sins as a checklist for his life? A guy who stiffs his workers for wages and materials? Jesus preached to prostitutes – Trump hires them. All around great guy. He should have been toxic, but for one thing – Republicans hate minorities and are will to endure suffering if Trump can make others suffer even more. That is what Trump promised to do and that is what he is delivering. Not safety, not a better economy, just suffering.
Think.
Treasury Department under Bill Clinton resigned and apologized because the Epstein files revealed that he was asking Epstein for advice on how to cheat on his wife.
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I wonder if Bill spoke with Epstein about Hillery?
Think
Treasury Department under Bill Clinton resigned and apologized because the Epstein files revealed that he was asking Epstein for advice on how to cheat on his wife.
I wonder, did Bill C speak with Epstein about cheating on Hillary?
You’re the guy who claims to have several degrees? You sure you want to stick to that?
You’re demonstrating classic TDS. Get a life.
So, utility bills didn’t rise during the Biden Administration after all. Thanks for clearing that up. Klobuchar was right, after all!
You really are one ignorant punk!
Since Turley went on the MAGA payroll, this entire blog consists of nothing but MAGA confirmtion bias
Confirmation bias is wondering whether you posted that as a freebee for the Democrat Marxist Useless Idiot Borg. Or whether they had to throw a few Furries your way first?
Here’s a little advice: don’t pose, flex, and display where you have zero credibility due to your fawning groupie behavior towards King Oval Office House Plant.
I knew years ago that the closing of the asylums was a terrible mistake.
I invited a friend who gave me a turkey for Thanksgiving to come over for dinner, he lived 40.5 mile away, and he left his ranch at 9:28am MST, arrived 2 hours before the turkey was to be done at 11:28 PST. How fast was my friend traveling?
That stupid sentence is no different than Klobuchars interpretation of a graph., There was a Movie, “Greasers Palace” Directed by Robert Downey Sr. 1972, one of the lines may be applicable to Klobuchar, ‘If You Feel You Heal’, like most Democrats facts be damned, I FEEL IT TO BE FACTUAL TRUTH, or as our last illustrious President Biden said, we trust truth over fact. Gosh; Biden’s administration even convinced many that Inflation could be transitory, another words while inflating its only temporary, its dependant on my truth of time. Most ever day some democrat reinforces my feelings that democrats must take their brain out at bedtime and play with it.
“How fast was my friend traveling?”
He was traveling “As the Crow Fly’s”
GW,
Let’s compare her grasp on economics versus the grasp of President Trump. He said tariffs would make America wealthy; instead we are currently involved in a low temperature trade war. Good job.
President Trump’s seemingly bulletproof strategy of choosing lawyers exclusively based on bust size has not worked out nearly as well as anticipated.
Trump was left befuddled this week as the administration suffered a string of legal setbacks despite all of his lawyers having large bra sizes.
“How could she lose, she’s so hot,” wondered Trump. “It doesn’t make any sense. Our lawyer clearly has a much larger bust than their lawyer. It’s not even close. It’s embarrassing, frankly, the bust comparison. We should have won easily. Maybe the judge is gay, or blind. There’s no other way to explain it.”
White House aides reportedly tried suggesting to Trump that perhaps he should consider other factors besides bust size when choosing a lawyer. “That is so dumb,” responded Trump. “It could be the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard. Do you think Sydney Sweeney has lost any arguments lately? Have you ever seen a woman with a large bust lose an argument? No, you haven’t. It’s ridiculous.”
At publishing time, Trump had hired a plastic surgeon to help ensure his lawyers didn’t lose any more cases.
This is from the Babylon Bee.
https://babylonbee.com/news/trumps-strategy-of-hiring-lawyers-based-on-bust-size-not-working-as-well-as-anticipated
When you MAGA morons have lost the Babylon Bee it is the beginning of the end.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!
Ms. Halligan makes Sydney Sweeney look homely. Halligan ran for miss Colorado and was a Miami model. She’s also an insurance lawyer and investigates fraud presumably. She’s perfect for mortgage fraud but has little experience in federal prosecution. There isn’t a mentor presumably in that district currently.
She’s 36, married with a child. She’ll do fine.
“She’ll do fine.”
When? She has performed disastrously thus far.
Hopefully she will be disbarred for her idiocy and thus forced to find a trade more suited to her “talents.”
Envy methinks. Should anyone be punished for being ugly? Nor should any beautiful person be punished. You’re female, anon. Envy is a vice of this world. Please, for your sake and others, be rid of it. Thank you.
Yes, she will. Probably a weekend spot on Faux News.
The consistency of your TDS is scary; it seems like genuine, honest-to-god mental illness. Wow.
Larry, Larry, Larry, now behave yourself. Seems you got a anti-TDS flare-up. How is it you can read a persons mind and no one else?
@Lawrence
I think it is, at this point, after ten years, an honest to goodness mental illness. I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like it, and someday it will be studied. These people are not well. No one can deny the reality in front of their faces so consistently every day without being literally and likely clinically delusional.
“These people are not well.”
Amazing how completely anonymous “people” can diagnose mental illness in others from their cellars.
Guess, it takes one to know one.