Dec 15, 2011

The best way to lie with statistics... is just lie.

The best way to lie with statistics, says Andrew Gelman, is just lie.  This graph from Fox news is a visual version of that.  It’s published at Flowingdata.com via Media Matters.

The numbers are correct, but the Foxy graphmongers are making up the Y-axis as they go along.  The 8.6% of November is higher than than 8.8%, 8.9%, and maybe even the 9.0% of the first three months of the year. Or maybe it’s an optical illusion :-)

(View original at http://thesocietypages.org/socimages)

Cross-posted at Montclair SocioBlog.