{"id":42896,"date":"2011-12-14T12:35:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T17:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=42896"},"modified":"2011-12-13T23:07:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T04:07:06","slug":"graphic-design-the-fox-news-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/12\/14\/graphic-design-the-fox-news-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic Design the Fox News Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/montclairsoci.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/graphic-design-fox-news-way.html\" target=\"_blank\">Montclair SocioBlog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The best way to lie with statistics, says\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewgelman.com\/2011\/10\/the-1-way-to-lie-with-statistics-is-to-just-lie\/\">Andrew Gelman<\/a>, is just lie.\u00a0 This graph from Fox news is a visual version of that.\u00a0 It\u2019s published at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/\">Flowingdata.com<\/a> via Media Matters.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YTka1pkseSg\/TugR5cksGGI\/AAAAAAAAC3c\/z93ly1_ZxDA\/s1600\/00+Fox.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YTka1pkseSg\/TugR5cksGGI\/AAAAAAAAC3c\/z93ly1_ZxDA\/s400\/00+Fox.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The numbers are correct, but the Foxy graphmongers are making up the Y-axis as they go along.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it\u2019s an optical illusion.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>HT:\u00a0 Max Livingston<\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted at Montclair SocioBlog. The best way to lie with statistics, says\u00a0Andrew Gelman, is just lie.\u00a0 This graph from Fox news is a visual version of that.\u00a0 It\u2019s published at\u00a0Flowingdata.com via Media Matters. The numbers are correct, but the Foxy graphmongers are making up the Y-axis as they go along.\u00a0 The 8.6% of November is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[274],"class_list":["post-42896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-methodsuse-of-data"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42896"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42904,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42896\/revisions\/42904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}