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Those are the numbers that matter. Percentages are how you lie with statistics. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country https://our
by gorwell 1y ago
Those are the numbers that matter. Percentages are how you lie with statistics.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...
- lotsofpulp 1y agoGlobally, the total matters. By country, the per capita matters.
- _aavaa_ 1y agoDisagree. What matters is the absolute number, and the direction that number is going in.
- zzzoom 1y agoWhat matters is that the US' number keeps growing.
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- gorwell 1y agoIt hasn't. It's been down since 2007 despite increased population.
- triceratops 1y agoThe article is literally about how it grew this year.
- nerpderp82 1y agoThere is a great book on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics But you have to know enough statistics to be sneaky with it.