The CBC article inflated the survey’s results by five times the actual 8% of Canadians who experienced racial discrimination while at work.
A CBC article on a survey of how many Canadians experience racism originally misled Canadians by overstating the results by 400%.
The article which was originally titled “It’s a constant battle’: Nearly 40% of Canadians experience racism in the workplace” inflated the survey’s results by five times the actual 8% of Canadians who experienced racial discrimination while at work.
“In fact, the 40 per cent was a subset of the 20 per cent of survey respondents who said they experienced some form of racial discrimination, meaning eight per cent of Canadians experienced racial discrimination at work,” read the correction.