For those readers who teach statistics, or methods, or cover the representation of data in their classes, or, like me, are just geeky and unfortunately easily amused, I present to you The World’s Most Accurate Pie Chart.
Gwen Sharp is an associate professor of sociology at Nevada State College. You can follow her on Twitter at @gwensharpnv.
Comments 8
Evan — June 28, 2012
Very similar:
http://fakescience.tumblr.com/post/22328843580/scatterplots-can-show-data-in-new-ways
Mordicai — June 28, 2012
The cake is a lie. You can trust the pie.
Noelle Stoffl — June 28, 2012
Cheesecake is totally a kind of pie. Just like a jackrabbit is a kind of hare.
Jay — June 28, 2012
It's a lemon pie!
ctl — June 28, 2012
http://fakescience.tumblr.com/post/6042293374/understanding-pie-charts
This is why we don't use pies for science.
Freja — June 29, 2012
To be fair, the legend/labels are leading and left unexamined - are we to take it entirely on faith that the smaller portion was eaten by the author alone? 'Not yet' implies that they will eat the rest - are we to trust predictions of the future from the author entirely uncritically? No, it's trying to sell us a larger fabricated story with but a kernel of truth. 'Existing pie' and 'no-longer-existing pie' are more strictly true, and don't constructive a questionable narrative about the events leading up to and following the taking of the photo in the same way. Make your own mind up!
Theresa — June 29, 2012
I'm pretty sure that is a key lime pie sans green dye. I know this because it is my state pie. And because I am a fatty and make at least a couple of key lime pies a year. :)
Meganb — August 7, 2012
lolololoolololo but not very helpful ♀☺☻Ü"