[News] Inane, funny or plain stupid questions by reporters

PILTDOWN MAN said:

Watching the local TV news this evening, an article covering the rise in speeding during the shut down, the reporter asked the Chief Super of the Police, if as result of speeding someone had an accident and was seriously injured or killed, how would it affect the family?

There's been so many stupid questions recently I now watch the news, just to laugh at the most idiotic.

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father_and_son said:

You are Donald Trump and I claim my £5

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Is it PotG? said:

Peston is the Daddy in this field.

Plus, any question starting "How important........?"

How can you quantify how important....1 to 10?

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m@goo said:

I was going to start a new thread on this but thought I'd better search first.

Mine was going to specifically be about football reporters asking often overly long questions to make themselves look insightful when in fact they have bloody obvious answers! You can often see the disdain and boredom envelope a player's or manager's face as they're asking it. They even often give an answer that's irrelevant to the question because it was so obvious and boring, just to give more genuine insight to the viewer.

Reporter: "So Graham, bearing in mind other teams around us are dropping points and Brighton's precarious position in the league, how vital was it that we saw that game out with a draw and a valuable point?"

Sometimes I wish they'd treat the question with the contempt it deserves and embarrass the reporter.

GP: "Quite vital, yes..."

Reporter: "Erm..."

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m@goo said:

I was going to start a new thread on this but thought I'd better search first.

Mine was going to specifically be about football reporters asking often overly long questions to make themselves look insightful when in fact they have bloody obvious answers! You can often see the disdain and boredom envelope a player's or manager's face as they're asking it. They even often give an answer that's irrelevant to the question because it was so obvious and boring, just to give more genuine insight to the viewer.

Reporter: "So Graham, bearing in mind other teams around us are dropping points and Brighton's precarious position in the league, how vital was it that we saw that game out with a draw and a valuable point?"

Sometimes I wish they'd treat the question with the contempt it deserves and embarrass the reporter.

GP: "Quite vital, yes..."

Reporter: "Erm..."

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:

Indeed.

Also....

In my game (science, man and boy, 40 years, hardest game in the world), we compare the effect of a drug with a placebo using a statistical test, and if there is a drug effect this is identified if the maths shows the difference in the numbers is statistically significant. For anyone to give a shit, this also needs to be biologically significant (i.e., a statistically significant one ounce reduction in body weight is not bloody biologically significant, is it?). Also, significance is binary - an effect is either significant or not (with a probability threshold for making the decision set beforehand - usually p<0.05).

So it grinds my gears when a daft interviewer asks 'How significant do you think it was that Pogba was left on the bench again?'
I normally scream sonething like "Faaaakin p<0.05, you ****!"

Maybe it's just me

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