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Five Ways to Lie with Charts
- sctb 8y agoPreviously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19713197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19713197.
- jizz_mop 8y agoGreat job!
- shawxe 8y agoThe book "Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data" by Joel Best goes into a lot of this kind of stuff. Some of the examples here (and in that book) seem so obvious once you hear/see them from the right angle, but it can actually be surprisingly easy for otherwise intelligent people to be deceived by data trickery.