Tuesday, April 01, 2014

An April Fool Post


Even though this Fox News chart was from the month of March:



To the credit of Fox News, they have apologized for the mistake and shown the graph today with the necessary adjustment on the vertical axis (I couldn't get the video to work but you should be able to view it at this link.) 

For more examples of lying with graphs or making a mess out of statistical arguments, check out this, thisthis and this.