{"id":49275,"date":"2012-07-06T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=49275"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:03:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:03:58","slug":"how-not-to-venn-diagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/07\/06\/how-not-to-venn-diagram\/","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Venn Diagram"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mitt Romney’s campaign put out a set of graphics<\/a> illustrating a “gap” between what Obama promised and what he has delivered. \u00a0The graphic is in the form of a Venn diagram, a visual designed to show the overlap between two conditions. \u00a0For an example, see this platypus playing a keytar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Romney’s overlapping circles are not Venn diagrams, making the campaign somewhat ridiculous and giving nerdy liberals all over America a good chuckle.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>So, there you have it, an example of how not to use Venn diagrams to illustrate your data.<\/p>\n

Via Feministing<\/a>\u00a0and Dolores R.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mitt Romney’s campaign put out a set of graphics illustrating a “gap” between what Obama promised and what he has delivered. \u00a0The graphic is in the form of a Venn diagram, a visual designed to show the overlap between two conditions. \u00a0For an example, see this platypus playing a keytar. Unfortunately, Romney’s overlapping circles are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49275","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49275"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58310,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49275\/revisions\/58310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}