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Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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Torrannor posted:

That must take the crown for most misleading and dishonest chart I have ever seen. "Number of gun deaths in Florida went up after enacting stand your ground laws? Let's flip the graph upside down!"

If I remember correctly, that was made as an example of how graphs can be deceptive.

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Pakled has a new favorite as of 17:22 on Oct 8, 2015

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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Yeah, going by that every Saudi prince is extremely oppressed.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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Where were you the day that Females achieved 5 rights?

Pakled
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It's everyone's favorite chart!

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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cmndstab posted:

That doesn't seem so bad to me, but I do have to wonder why literally every answer is "global warming is probably bullshit".

Presumably there were other statements in the original survey that weren't included in the chart because they weren't relevant to the professor's point.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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Aug 6, 2011

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To be fair, I don't think that chart was designed to encompass the entire spectrum of human political thought, just American politics.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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Didn't Puerto Rico have a successful referendum to petition Congress to be granted statehood a couple years ago but congress hasn't done anything about it?

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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It was super common in like, the 18th century on to the early 20th century.

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Mikl posted:

Sweden? What the hell? :psyduck:

Sweden's had an unusually high rape rate for a Western country since those statistics started being collected. This is most likely because Sweden has a wider definition of "rape" than most other countries and because rape is more likely to be reported there, and probably not because more rape is actually committed there than in other countries.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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Gorilla Salad posted:

Why does male sterilisation go from 10% to 10% and end up lower on the right hand side?

Because it's not 10% on the right hand side, it's 8%.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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Strudel Man posted:

Because it was deliberately created to be a bad graph.

Right here on this very website, even.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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Best use of pie charts I've seen in a long time.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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Everyone says that teachers are valuable and underappreciated until it comes time to start talking about education reform or the education budget, at which point the conversation just turns to how lazy and ineffectual teachers are.

Even so, anyone who says that a teacher is a more prestigious job than a congressman is lying to themselves.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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That reminded me of this



A 7-way Venn Diagram.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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Is "P2P law" referring to something other than filesharing?

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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Noted socialist FDR.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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This isn't awful, just funny.



from http://kaylinwalker.com/50-years-of-pop-music/

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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Population of Saudi Arabia

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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Phanatic posted:

Nah, Japanese people just murder themselves. Japan's suicide rate is higher than the US's suicide rate and homicide rate combined.

True enough, but doesn't Japan also have a problem with police classifying unsolved murders as suicides?

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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Outrail posted:

What exactly happened to cause the drop?

The rest of the picture has an explanation.

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Platystemon posted:

How does horse racing skew democratic, if only barely?

And WWE? :psyduck:

The explanation I've heard for WWE is that fandom/viewership is trending younger and more heavily Hispanic.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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What I get from this is that gay men get so aroused by bestiality and gay porn that their boners travel back in time.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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Rods to the hogshead or nothing.

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Also it doesn't take into account immigrants from outside the US.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

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No Safe Word posted:

The fun part is that it actually is ordered along the x-axis in spite of not looking ordered

e: or ... it isn't? It looked like it was ordered by population but there are things out of place, so :downs:

It's ordered by number of Republican delegates :v:

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