{"id":29085,"date":"2012-08-04T19:14:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T01:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/04\/bad-bar-graph-bad-no-pie-for-you.html"},"modified":"2012-08-14T09:33:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:33:01","slug":"bad-bar-graph-bad-no-pie-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/04\/bad-bar-graph-bad-no-pie-for-you.html","title":{"rendered":"Bad Bar Graph! Bad! No Pie for you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graphic incompetence or graphic deceit. \u00a0They report, you deride.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetfile9.posterous.com%2Fgetfile%2Ffiles.posterous.com%2Fbengoldacre%2F1qasgHrJVWV9HJSND1OAnE5JQl3CBK7Zw2myWjO5foO4L20OxeuYDCPdNAwX%2Ffoxgraph.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/bengoldacre.posterous.com\/and-misleading-y-axis-of-the-year-goes-to-fox'>And &quot;Misleading Y-axis Of The Year&quot; goes to&#8230; Fox News!<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAwesome Y-axis tomfoolery from Fox News, via @bloggerheads . If you enjoy this kind of thing, it was first well-documented by Darrel Huff in his excellent &quot; How To Lie With Statistics &quot; (every home sh&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/FrhMJrv761m' target='_new'>1<\/a> times<br \/> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/FrhMJrv761m' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphic incompetence or graphic deceit. \u00a0They report, you deride. Embedded Link And &quot;Misleading Y-axis Of The Year&quot; goes to&#8230; Fox News! Awesome Y-axis tomfoolery from Fox News, via @bloggerheads . If you enjoy this kind of thing, it was first well-documented by Darrel Huff in his excellent &quot; How To Lie With Statistics &quot; (every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/04\/bad-bar-graph-bad-no-pie-for-you.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bad Bar Graph! Bad! 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Not doing that means you\u00a0are doing what elementary school kids call \"comparing apples and oranges.\"Of course, if it fits your\u00a0narrative, then I guess all is fair in love\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30086,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/05\/the-ostensibly-godless-democrats.html","url_meta":{"origin":29085,"position":1},"title":"The ostensibly &quot;GODless&quot; Democrats","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Sep-12 11:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"Religious Rightists (and Fox News, and probably Rush Limbaugh, I'd wager a small sum) are having public conniptions that the Democratic platform doesn't include the word \"God\" (whereas the GOP platform has an apparently record-breaking number of \"God\"s in it).Fox News even put together a nicely misleading (as the bar\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1266,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/04\/the_axis_of_evi.html","url_meta":{"origin":29085,"position":2},"title":"The Axis of Evil","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 4-Feb-02 8:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"SatireWire discusses the way the countries excluded from the \"Axis of Evil\" are reacting. Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the \"Axis of Evil,\" Libya, China, and Syria today...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Potpourri&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24541,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/stupidly-incompetent-or-not-so-subtly-propagandistic-or-maybe-both.html","url_meta":{"origin":29085,"position":3},"title":"Stupidly incompetent or not-so-subtly propagandistic?  Or, maybe, both!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Dec-11 8:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"\"One of these things ... is not like the other ...\" #ddtbReshared post from +David BadashCrazy! 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