This is why I hate them. This is why I always introduced my GCSE stats lessons as "lessons in lying". This is why I'm going back to statistics teaching (undergraduate level this time) full time in September.
FOX News:
Correct graph:
Note that they didn't just invert the y-axis. Any fool can do that. Note that they rearranged the x-axis to put events out of chronological order. That's some high level bullshitting right there.
(Important note: just because I've corrected this doesn't mean I think the correct graph is actually particularly useful; I don't. But at least the information is honestly displayed.)
Update: forgot to h/t JJ and There's Coffee In That Nebula. My apologies, folks!
Update 2: Clay points out in comments quite persuasively that it's a fake, though a fake based on screenshots from another spectacularly bad FOX graphic. Clearly I should have checked thoroughly before throwing this up. We regret the error.
1 comment:
Thankfully, this is almost certainly a fake. It has the exact same ticker as the misleading Obamacare enrollment graph from a month or two ago.
Compare ticker here with the one from back then:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/03/31/dishonest-fox-charts-obamacare-enrollment-editi/198679
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