The importance of fact checking. I remember an infographic that randomly said 80% of college students use Mac books. Lol wut?

You would not believe the amount of money spent annually on making biased results in statistics. It's one of the reasons why you shouldn't watch 24/7 news if you want factually correct information cause very rarely do any of the big ones or even the small ones cite surveys that are independent and is a random sampling poll of at least 1800 people.

Why are "surveys" like this now? Easy: money.
Forgive me for bringing politics in this for a second, but look at the 2012 elections. Even after obama surpassed the electoral votes needed the news was going, "survey said that florida is contested" or "we can't call this election over until we get the results from florida" even though the election was over. Why? Cause as soon as there's a clean cut winner or a clean cut result people will turn off the tv and go to bed. Sure credibility has taken a massive hit and that many people have lost faith in major media to accurately tell facts, but they need money to operate and hyping up stuff to be some controversial topic is a sure fire way to get viewership.

My point? There simply isn't enough money in factually correct information when hype sells boat loads of cash and chances are this trend won't be going away any time soon.
(sorry for long post; very fast typer)