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Is it just me or does this seem misleading? Highlighting an area on the graph before and after the enacted date seems to prime skimmers into seeing the trend th
by noobermin 8y ago
Is it just me or does this seem misleading? Highlighting an area on the graph before and after the enacted date seems to prime skimmers into seeing the trend the article wants to argue. On the other hand, making a line through the min and max over time (by eye) just shows an increasing trend from the beginning of the plot to the end.
EDIT: here you go
https://imgur.com/a/Fh5T9LZ https://imgur.com/a/Fh5T9LZ
- 9935c101ab17a66 8y agoThat's a good point. Also, there's a huge spike in the "latter" highlighted part that may correspond to the Super Bowl win? I wonder if it's related.
- dragonwriter 8y agoYeah, it's especially distorted because thet just average the 42 month period before and then the 18 month period after. They could, with e dame source data, average each of the seven 6-month period before, and each of the three 6-month periods after, which would make, which would make it clearer if the highly volatile measure was increasing over time before and if anything significant changed with the time at issue. (And even then, pretending that the event to which it is ascribed is the only relevant thing at that time is... dubious.)