# A serious question for Sam Stone on Factual Errors **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 11, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881 "2021-12-11T12:32:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 132
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/132 "2022-08-05T19:46:35Z")
Benefit of the doubt, there seem to be three basic possibilities for that mysterious poll of Sam’s: 1. There is a different poll/survey of teachers in the COVID age out there that I haven’t been able to locate, whose findings Sam accurately reproduced from memory though he can’t find the link (in which case, as I said in the thread, respect: I can’t reproduce ordered lists from memory like that); or 2. Sam is accurately remembering a source that was purporting to describe the January 2022 NEA survey that I summarized in [this post,](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-teacher-shortage-situation-in-america-right-now/969091/52) but which severely distorted its findings (in which case, he needs to stop using that highly unreliable source); or 3. What Sam saw was in fact the abovementioned NEA survey, but what he remembered (and claimed) was a severely distorted garbled version of its findings (in which case, dude, google that ish before you go around asserting definitively what it “stated”, just like the rest of us imperfect-memory mortals have to do). I pass over the alternative possibility that he just deliberately misrepresented the NEA survey and then pretended that he couldn’t find a cite for it, since I hope Sam wouldn’t do that. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881)._