This actually may be the single worst report I've ever seen. It's fractally awful. https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/NEAartsandeconomy_April2017_FINAL.pdf … A few choice failures: 1/
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Aside from that, it makes a huge howler: graphing circles whose *radii* are the quantity of interest makes for misleading *areas*. 3/
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12.6% is 10.5x bigger than 1.2%...but the corresponding circle is 110x bigger! 4/
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Friends, it gets worse. Far worse. Consider the following. Same mistake, but this time with a bonus error--2.6 is almost as big as 8??? 5/pic.twitter.com/uswecOtZ3h
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Finally, there are no references anywhere in the document. Almost nothing here is something you'd want to know by itself. 6/
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And with no links, there's no way to put these random bits of data into a meaningful context. It's all noise. Just noise. 7/
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So damn many other things wrong with this. Why are those circles overlapping? It's antiknowledge--you know less after reading it. 8/8
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In my experience, designers do not care about mathematical accuracy. Or how Venn diagrams work.
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So the question to ask is: what was this report supposed to accomplish? Apparently it was enough for Vice to "drop" on NEA "haters".
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As a self-published digital author ... am I in the big one or the little one? I'm confused.
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Not as confused as the people who put this together.
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Well, it's meant to deceive, so win-win.
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