DO YOU SEE*????? *These inaccurate numbers that I've put on a misleading scale, coloured weirdly, and don't understand at all
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One piece that I recently saw could literally be explained by the fact that the person had plotted things on different axes, so they looked vaguely correlated even though they weren't. It was quite funny
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screen shots lots of screen shots
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So. many. screen. shots.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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True for the anti-vaxxers too.
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Also, something something GOMPERTZ CURVEZZ
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Also Bayes.
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Pretty classic denialism. People are good at reading what they want out of a visual, and if enough people are just kind of immediately impressed by data presentation they assume it’s valid or authoritative, even if it shows the opposite of what they want.
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My favorite is when the crunch some bogus numbers and put up an excel graph, inevitably with wacky axes and a “line fit” which is like the comic sans of stats presentations.
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