2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton Rated Most Truthful Candidate [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)I think I made a very strong argument in my two posts in this thread about why I reject the truth of this argument.
I'd feel the same way about it if they'd declared Sanders more-truthful...since neither knowingly tells outright lies, the determination of truthfulness between them comes down to the biases of the arbiter as to what is true or mostly-true...a lot of the things determined as one or the other for both of them could be easily argued to to determined the other way.
The methodology is only really useful when determining honesty on an imposed dichotomy (i.e. everything has to be declared to be true or false; else, indeterminate)...which in-turn is only really determinable when one or both parties tells outright lies.
We can easily declare them both more-honest than the GOP candidates; all of whom hold only the most tenuous connection to honesty...beyond that, bias and noise.
This isn't new...I've always had issues with Politifact's methodology.