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The statisticians at Fox News use classic and novel graphical techniques
- bjhoops1 14y agoAnd is anyone surprised?
- Goronmon 14y agoThe section labelled Changing the magnitude of units at different x-values seems to indicate an actual error rather than any true 'technique' as only the last value doesn't match up with the axis labels. Though, it seems unlikely that it was an accidental error.
- sytelus 14y agoSome of these seems to be outright lies (like implicitly labeling X axis for different data points) but other techniques are just well crafted data illusions and covered well in books such as How to Lie with Statistics http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393310728 http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/039...