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The last example is especially striking to me, as i've seen that graph used in a discussion about the effects of gun laws. The person posting it had taken the t
by Mithaldu 13y ago
The last example is especially striking to me, as i've seen that graph used in a discussion about the effects of gun laws. The person posting it had taken the time to remove the numbers.
- notahacker 13y agoI was going to say it was the most heinous deliberate visual distortion of data to create the wrong impression I'd ever seen, and then I read the BI article that was clearly slanted the opposite way from the apparent bias in the graph, and noted that they claimed the graph was originally from Reuters, an organization relatively unlikely to sacrifice their credibility on the altar of defending Florida's "stand your ground" laws. If people choosing the visualizations didn't read too much into the message they conveyed, what does that say about the average reader taking a quick glance ? If I were to chart people that interpret visualizations to draw conclusions the narrative doesn't always express and people that see visualizations as a pretty picture to go with what the words say, I have a feeling the former group would be so small I could get away with using a pie chart[1] [1]But seriously, emphasizing the difference between a large majority and a tiny minority is the acceptable use case for a pie chart, isn't it?
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoI suspect the flipped y axis was for sheer aesthetics - blood dripping down.