StoppingSpinWithFacts
ImagineThat!Ville
Chris Montgomery is on the job again.
This time she is working on the rotting carcass of an old Tyee-initiated FOI request from 2010 that is finally seeing the light of day.
It promises to be stinky work that will cause eyes to water, stomach’s to churn, and heads to hurt.
But, given that the proMedia very likely won’t, somebody’s gotta take a reality-based, spin-free scalpel to the thing.
Here’s is the first bit of real meat that Ms. Montgomery has managed to hack free from the rotting flesh:
….So far, my favourite stuff starts at about 52, with the question: What happens when we apply a “common sense” smell test to the idea that the price of a ferry ticket affects ridership numbers?
And then there’s the one that David Hahn was so fond of asking: Do gas prices affect ferry travel?
(Hahn’s answer was always yes; I don’t want to give away any surprise endings, but let’s just say the company’s own report says that between 2003 and 2011, the answer was a big, fat NO. Perhaps the research team should have shared with Mr. Hahn.)…
There is sure to be more to come.
Are the flack-hackery monkeys soon to follow (again)?
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