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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Check out this "graph". It makes no sense to compare growth rates like this, because they're changes in _different quantities_. 2/pic.twitter.com/IlKnChH14J
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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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