Fox News continues charting excellence
http://flowingdata.com/2012/08/06/fox-news-continues-charting-excellence/
Image, Publisher, Flowing Data
Fox News tried to show the change in the top tax rate if the Bush tax cuts expire, so they showed the rate now and what’d it be in 2013. Wow, it’ll be around five times higher. Wait. No.
FlowingData, who posted this link, also include a graph of what the data should look like.
7 August 2012 Edit: 29 April 2017
- Topics:
- Data, Data Representation, Misleading Graphs
- Content Type:
- Image, Publisher, Flowing Data
- The Australian Curriculum
- Statistics and Probability, Data representation and interpretation, ACMSP148 Year 6 Interpret secondary data presented in digital media and elsewhere
- The Australian Curriculum Version 9.0 New
- Year 6, Statistics Year 6, AC9M6ST02 identify statistically informed arguments presented in traditional and digital media; disc
- NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus
- Statistics and Probability, MA4-19SP Data Collection and Representation
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