I did that today - I try to make sure they know that the art of statistics is to mislead using generally true data. It led to some good conversations.
One of my students pointed out that in addition to the general fuckiness there is also a difference in scale on the two axes lol. I hadn't noticed that.
Whoever made this graph needs to be hit by a car. In fact, I'm taking this graph and will present it to my students as what not to do.
I did that today - I try to make sure they know that the art of statistics is to mislead using generally true data. It led to some good conversations.
One of my students pointed out that in addition to the general fuckiness there is also a difference in scale on the two axes lol. I hadn't noticed that.
Yeah the first correction post on Twitter forgot to fix the scale, and me and s few other people posted the full stretched out version lol
Well, it's the right thing to do when you want to engage in some pro-imperialism propaganda...
Edit: I've been cracking up for a solid minute at the person who just replied "oh no baby what is you doing"
Finding what is wrong with this graph is actually quite a good challenge for students. I might save it myself.