So left wing journalists at ABC News decided to publish a news story on alleged racism in the heavy trucking industry, claiming that racist abuse is a possible contributing factor towards these crashes and deaths. This is completely insane, borderline Pravda tier agitprop.
They included a visually shocking graphic to intentionally mislead their viewers about the shocking rise in road deaths.
They then actually managed to find a progressive academic who argued that racism towards migrant drivers is a contributing factor towards these crashes and deaths.
Sarah Anderson’s previous published research includes ”Body Image and Psychological Well-Being in Adolescents: The Relationship Between Gender and School Type.” Other highlights from her academic career include ”Developing national priority assistive products lists: experiences and lessons from six Sub-Saharan African countries.”
Look at the completely visually broken graph that ABC News tried to include in this piece to cover up the true extent of new road deaths in the heavy trucking industry over the last few years.
I asked Claude to create a new zoomed in graph using the same data and the difference is immediately striking. What’s wrong with the original graph presented by ABC News? It’s deliberately misleading.
The Y-Axis scale is way too wide (60 to 140) for data that actually live around mid-50s to low-70s. That compresses the line and makes the change look trivial.
Even though a 25% increase in deaths due to human error means dozens of people are being killed. The Y-Axis labeling also doesn’t even match the plotted data.
The lowest labeled tick is 60, but the 2020 point is clearly below 60 (around 54–55). Again, this is an attempt to hide the striking uplift in deaths due to human error since 2020.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
I am sure these studies are very interesting but I have no idea what this has to do with trucking. Anderson argues: ”They are working long shifts with really tight timeframes they have to work to. The minute we add racism or aggression to a truck driver who needs attention to detail, who needs good decision making, we are actually impacting their ability to do their job safely.”
”You’ve got someone with a 6 tonne truck behind them who doesn’t have as good decision making skills as what they could have, we are not setting anyone up to be safe and effective on the roads.”
Is this not an argument to get these individuals off the roads?
Again, this is shocking. Literally Pravda tier psychosis.
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