Cross-posted at Montclair SocioBlog.
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.
[HT: Max Livingston]
