You can’t make good predictions based on a little data. This is a very poor measure of global warming as much of the heat ends up in the oceans. The graph is showing air temperatures.In fact, the journalist who wrote the article to go with this picture ( David Rose) just didn’t understand what the graph was telling him. When we read newspapers, we often think the people writing the articles are experts. The newspaper used it to claim that global warming had stopped.
Here’s another global warming picture, from the British tabloid the Mail on Sunday. Misleading Graphs: Just Reading it Plain Wrong Global Warming Stopped!
What is this graph actually telling us? Pretty much nothing at all other than their statisticians are very good at making not-very-good graphs. It looks like lanacane works better than regular anti-itch cream, right? Note the lack of labels. I’m not sure what to say about this graph for the anti-itch cream, Lanacane. It hasn’t: The deficit was just 1.2 percent of GDP in 2007, when the housing market collapsed. This might lead you to think that the deficit has been an ongoing problem. This graph makes it look like the deficit has always been high, because the graph starts in 2009. Here’s another example of incomplete data. What’s wrong with this picture? It only shows the first half of the year, so of course temperatures are rising dramatically. 54%).Īverage monthly temperature in New Haven, CT. Only slightly more democrats supported than republicans (62% vs. But on closer inspection, note the scale on the vertical axis. CNN used a graph similar to the one below to show who agreed with the decision to remove the feeding tube.Ī fist look at this graph makes it look like three times as many democrats supported the decision. Terry Schiavo was removed from life support after a years-long court battle. See the difference?Ī final example of this type of misleading graph. Here’s what the graph should look like if it had been plotted correctly. It’s been plotted to look like there’s exponential growth when in fact, the overall employment trend is pretty stable at around 9%. That’s not the only problem with this graph. Note that the value for November (8.6) has not been plotted correctly. Here’s another, designed to show that after a small drop in unemployment it went up and up in the Obama administration. Not to keep on bashing on Fox News, but their name came up time and time again when searching for misleading graphs from real life. Disastrous, right? Again, check the scale (it starts at 34). Fox News Misleading Graphs.įox News showed this chart of what would happen if the Bush tax cuts expired.
0000003% (based on 2000 injuries per year out of a population of around 74,000,000). This one has the correct figures, but that BIG HEADLINE makes you think that 5.3% of children get spinal cord injuries…a pretty scary statistic for parents:įor the record, the real figure is about. But note where the y-axis starts…at 94 million! This graph makes our welfare problem look like it’s spiraling out of control. USA today is notorious for fussy graphs that have too much information and mislead. But take a closer look at the scale and you’ll see although The Times does make more sales, it’s only beating the competition by about 10%. You might be thinking that the graph on the right shows The Times makes double the sales of The Daily Telegraph. The Times leaves the rest behind…or does it? Later, Facebook lobbyists warned Democratic staffers that Republicans were focused on the company’s decision to ban expressions of support for Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who killed two people during unrest in Kenosha, Wis., and who was later acquitted of homicide and other charges.Īccording to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook aimed to “muddy the waters” and “divide lawmakers along partisan lines and forestall a cross-party alliance that was emerging to enact tougher rules on social-media companies in general and Facebook in particular.Can’t see the video? Click here. Within hours, several conservative news outlets published stories alleging Ms. To lawmakers and advocacy groups on the right, according to people familiar with the conversations, their message was that Ms. Here’s how the Wall Street Journal described Facebook’s scheme: In other words, Facebook employees were reportedly running a real-life political manipulation effort that mirrored the kind of political feuds the company stokes for profit online. After whistleblower Frances Haugen alleged that Facebook manipulates its users and knowingly disregards its negative impact on children, Facebook sent lobbyists and other staffers to convince both Democrats and Republicans that taking action against the platform would serve the opposing party, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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