rajimoto
rajimoto t1_izfncwq wrote
Reply to [OC] How to spot misleading charts? I would like to hear your opinion on the subject, also any tips design-wise? by dark_o3
Who benefits from the analysis and the persuasion presented?
What data are omitted?
Those are the most important questions to answer first. With those ideas in mind, the obvious flaws in the presentation are glaring.
rajimoto t1_izfz1ji wrote
Reply to comment by wonder_bear in [OC] How to spot misleading charts? I would like to hear your opinion on the subject, also any tips design-wise? by dark_o3
You don't even need to manipulate the results.
The visualization is a selective presentation of a dataset.
It's trivial to spin a narrative with a slice of a dataset, and once you see how easy it is, you can't unsee it.