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This is a great point. A better title would have been something like "Traffic fatalities in March drop to ####". When I was in school, our statistics prof use
by MR4D 6y ago
This is a great point.
A better title would have been something like "Traffic fatalities in March drop to ####".
When I was in school, our statistics prof used to put up that daily chart on the bottom of the USA Today front page. He wouldn't start class until we found two or three things wrong with it. By the end of the semester, nobody in the class trusted anything from that newspaper. Great learning experience!
- munk-a 6y agoTalking about terrible statistical presentation - I don't know if you saw this graph[1] that Georgia published displaying corona virus impact but if not... there is something a bit off with it. 1. https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/05/19/18/28584104-8336989-image-a-2_1589908458740.jpg https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/05/19/18/28584104-8336989-...
- brewdad 6y agoThat one is so bad and so obvious to anyone who takes the time to actually read the labels that it feels like a case of malicious compliance. A boss needed a chart to support a falling case count and someone made him a visually appealing one while also showing the trend is BS.
- joshuahedlund 6y agoAs someone who has been watching GA's charts closely over the last few weeks, I actually disagree in this case. It was one chart of several on the page, and not even the most prominent[0], the other charts were still in the right order, and this chart still showed an overall downward trend even put in the correct order. As someone who has dealt with coding lots of data into charts and making frequent changes to them and seen how bugs easily sneak in, I find mistake more likely than malice. [0]https://dph.georgia.gov/covid-19-daily-status-report https://dph.georgia.gov/covid-19-daily-status-report
- shanecleveland 6y agoHow is the current title misleading? Organ transplants down: Fact. Number of fatalities down: Fact.