fact-checking that inter-webby thing:..the ‘stuff’ website..

disputed-claim:..the stuff website is running as their banner headline claims of research showing there is no relation between poverty/hunger – and low educational achievement..

..basically countering all the mood/drives to provide food in the poorest schoools..

..the headline/content trumpet this as a fact..

..and you have to dig deep down to find the following..

“..Ni Murchu said there was a chance her study did not capture the children who most needed the breakfasts.

“There’s always a risk that the kinds of people who participate are not the higher needs group.”

This was because her study participants had to get parental consent – and fill in a lengthy questionnaire –

- a process that may have alienated the high-needs families…”

ed:..’may’ have..?..really..?..only ‘may’?..

..these self-confessed epic-fails in connecting with the target-group pretty much consign these research ‘findings’ to the rubbish bin..

..how could they not..?

..and you would have to say that the stuff website has been fact-checked..

..and found to be wanting..

go to source/story>>>

Food and learning connection shot down | Stuff.co.nz.

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