Police Killings per Capita v Homicide Rate per Capita for Select OECD Countries [OC]Submitted by dr5c t3_y350kf in dataisbeautiful
[deleted] t1_is6nhwp wrote
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I think you need to study how graphs commonly mislead people in order to avoid those techniques. Nobody should take a cheat seriously once they're exposed. There is responsible data science, and then there's that.
JPAnalyst t1_is6r99t wrote
The graph would look EXACTLY the same if they did that.
[deleted] t1_is6rqqr wrote
The shape of the data points doesn't change, but the axes do. That's what makes this misleading.
JPAnalyst t1_is6s2q8 wrote
It’s labeled, nothing is hidden. In graphs, it’s the visual that matters. That’s why we make graphs because the shape is what the takeaway is. This is not deceptive at all.
[deleted] t1_is6ylbj wrote
The takeaway is that police kill more people than homicides. This is the WRONG takeaway because it's factually incorrect. What that means is that one or more things you said about graphs is also WRONG.
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