In Reply to: Re: Truth is telling the whole story and not adding sensationalism posted by Traveler in India on December 28, 2009 at 01:01:24:
Right on! This report is practically based on how U.S. Americans feel about India, rather than what really goes on in India. I admire your patience in explaining all this. Like you say,
any study factors irrationality is flawed. The study is formed by impressions (irrationality) derived from the (factual) existence of reports.
The facts may be one thing but reports may or may not exist, or may be lacking or or over-abundant. Impressions are feelings and interpretations which are biased depending on
whom you ask. So the conclusions reached by such a flawed study can be highly inaccurate.
Another blindspot is the agenda behind any existing reports from which the study was derived. Many reports exist only because the West has an agenda to fix the East. However, if you ask the "right" people who want to fix the West, they will tell you that Guantanamo bay is used for religious persecution. If a report exists in Afghanistan that America has state-legislated persecution of Muslims, and some Afghans are asked about their impressions on these reports, then they could turn the hyperbole around saying the U-.S.of A. ranks high in religious persecution.