Re:Flatiron School settles for operating without license, em...
by rdiddly on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @01:47PM
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Makes the Times look pretty stupid and/or like shills either unwitting or paid!
Re:Flatiron School settles for operating without license, em...
by WoodenChair on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @10:41PM
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I don't know why you're being downvoted. The epitome of so-called "fake news" is a newspaper reprinting stats a private corporation provides it in a matter-of-fact tone as the Times did here.
Instead of writing, "More than 95 percent of its 1,000 graduates there have landed coding jobs." The Times should've written "Flatiron claims more than 95 percent of its 1,000 graduates there have landed coding jobs." Those two words Flatiron claims are the difference between reporting and restating as fact.
Re:Flatiron School settles for operating without license, em...
by andrestan on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:15PM
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In fairness to the Times I wouldn't call this fake news; just slightly sloppy reporting. Fake news implies that it's deliberately misleading which this doesn't appear to be. They are simply repeating claims.
Re:Flatiron School settles for operating without license, em...
by topgunsarg on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @10:40AM
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Flatiron was going around parading themselves as the only coding school to get their job statistics audited by a third party, so I don't necessarily blame the NYT for believing their claims.
Ironic that the only audited school is now the one having issues with misleading statistics.
NYT on 24 August 2017: "The Flatiron School in New York may have discovered one path. Founded in 2012, Flatiron has a single campus in downtown Manhattan and its main offering is a 15-week immersive coding program with a $15,000 price tag. More than 95 percent of its 1,000 graduates there have landed coding jobs."
two months later
NY AG, 17 October 2017: "However, Flatiron did not disclose clearly and conspicuously that the 98.5% employment rate included not only full time salaried employees but also apprentices, contract employees and self-employed freelance workers, some who were employed for less than twelve weeks. Similarly, Flatiron failed to clearly and conspicuously disclose that its $74,447 average salary claim included full time employed graduates only, which represent only 58% of classroom graduates and 39% of online graduates."