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This post is mostly not about economics or even politics but rather about the central role of comparisons in statistics and statistical graphics.It started when someone pointed me to this article in which Megan McArdle points out the misleadingness of...
Pat Egan sends along this monstrosity: It would be a fun exercise to find all the problems with the above plot.I’m really glad to have it out there, though. Next time we mock Fox News for one of its ridiculous...
In 2007, when Mitt Romney sat down with the Wall Street Journal editorial board, the candidate for the Republican presidential nomination was eager for the influential paper’s blessing. What he got, instead, was their bemusement. The paper’s account of the...
I opened the paper today and saw this from Paul Krugman, on Jack Welch, the former chairman of General Electric, who posted an assertion on Twitter that the [recent unemployment data] had been cooked to help President Obama’s re-election campaign....
Ken Schultz, a political scientist at Stanford, was inspired by the misleading Wall Street Journal graphic and disappeared Tax Foundation blog post to illustrate just how easy it is to manipulate bar graphs by changing the boundaries of the bins:...