{"id":523365,"date":"2022-12-08T02:53:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T23:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/suppressing-the-stats-that-make-progressives-look-bad\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T02:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T23:53:21","slug":"suppressing-the-stats-that-make-progressives-look-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/suppressing-the-stats-that-make-progressives-look-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"#Suppressing the stats that make progressives look bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2325f0dccc8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2325f0dccc8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/suppressing-the-stats-that-make-progressives-look-bad\/#%E2%80%9CSuppressing_the_stats_that_make_progressives_look_bad%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Suppressing the stats that make progressives look bad&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CSuppressing_the_stats_that_make_progressives_look_bad%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Suppressing the stats that make progressives look bad&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/bp-oil.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>What do you do when the data don\u2019t fit your ideology? Increasingly, modern progressives \u2014 from the educrats of New York\u2019s Board of Regents to the capitalists running energy giant BP \u2014 look to suppress them.<\/p>\n<p>BP, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/bp-weighs-ending-its-70-year-old-statistical-review-world-energy-2022-11-28\/\">reports Reuters<\/a>, is considering killing its annual Statistical Review of World Energy \u2014 because the report undercuts its drive to rebrand itself as Beyond Petroleum. \u201cPut simply,\u201d a company source quips, the Statistical Review is \u201cbad PR.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since 1952, the report has provided indispensable benchmark data on global energy trends. Yet, as energy expert <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/when-accurate-data-are-bad-pr-bp-british-petroleum-green-energy-clean-power-global-policy-nuclear-coal-11670360471\">Robert Bryce explains<\/a>, the data expose just \u201chow little\u201d progress the world is making in transitioning to renewables: \u201cIn 2021 the global use of coal, oil and natural gas combined grew nearly five times as fast as wind and solar energy,\u201d the report\u2019s figures show.<\/p>\n<p>Yet hiding info won\u2019t change reality: Shifting to renewables <em>is<\/em> difficult and costly \u2014 and can\u2019t h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en nearly as fast as climate warriors pretend. Letting the public come to grips with that, and making wise, informed energy decisions based on it, will be far harder without the data. But BP would apparently rather keep catering to the anti-carbon (and anti-nuclear) prejudices of Western elites.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Here in New York, the Board of Regents and the State Education Department it controls is on a mission to water down, downplay or outright scrap exams that show how badly many public schools are failing. The Board has made many standardized tests optional, meaning poor results from some kids don\u2019t show up. And it\u2019s moving to ditch Regents exams that for more than a century have shown high achievement \u2014 but also expose how many kids don\u2019t get even a minimal high-school education.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some universities \u2014 including top law schools, like Harvard and Yale \u2014 are refusing to provide data for US <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>\u2019 college rankings. They say the rankings are flawed and don\u2019t serve lower-income students, among other complaints. Yet US college administrators increasingly don\u2019t care about excellence, but only a narrow view of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> justice.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/georgetown-law-joins-roster-of-schools-withdrawing-from-u-s-news-world-report-law-school-rankings-11668795306\">Says US News\u2019 Eric Gertler<\/a>: \u201cWe provide one set of comparable metrics so that students can evaluate their options, make their decision based on a commonality of data.\u201d That\u2019s a message the lords of US higher education (who\u2019ve already devalued the SAT and similar exams) don\u2019t want <em>anyone<\/em> to hear.<\/p>\n<p>None of it\u2019s so different from then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s refusal to release full tallies of COVID deaths at nursing homes in the wake of his disastrous order that they admit COVID-positive patients: Hide the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Stats \u2014 on renewable energy, test scores, nursing-home deaths or anything else \u2014 are absolutely <em>critical <\/em>to decision-making. And only those with something to hide will look to kill the messenger by trying to make the data go away.\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Increasingly, modern progressives \u2014 from the educrats of New York\u2019s Board of Regents to the capitalists running energy giant BP \u2014 look to suppress them. BP, reports Reuters, is considering killing its annual Statistical Review of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":523366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/bp-oil.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[136870,98294,75369,43,70752,77028,72970,109753,70753,76231],"class_list":["post-523365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-7-22","tag-board-of-regents","tag-colleges-and-universities","tag-editorial","tag-energy","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-oil","tag-rankings","tag-renewable-energy","tag-standardized-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}