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Misleading charts of 2015, fixed

79 pointsby mikekover 9 years ago

5 comments

freditupover 9 years ago
I would argue the last "good" chart example, a chart of mass-shootings per president, is misleading as it compares four two-term presidents (Obama, W. Bush, Clinton, and Reagan) to a single-term president (H.W. Bush).
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lucb1eover 9 years ago
The first one was indeed a bad chart, the others simply lying with data. That might as well have been wrong in written text...
rodionosover 9 years ago
There is lies and there is statistics :). For more reading on the subject, I recommend Beautiful Evidence by E. Tufte. He's a classic when it comes to infoviz.
eanzenbergover 9 years ago
So this complains about not including the 0 on the y-axis but then complains about it in the national review global temp chart.<p>If you have an agenda it will show through, regardless of what you do. Both graphs accurately portray the data, but most of the public doesn&#x27;t care to interpret graphs objectively.
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jsprogrammerover 9 years ago
Should follow up on the lack of 2008 PP data. Might show up as an abortion peak...possibly why it has apparently been witheld.<p>Uh..downmods?
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