70 points

The best part of this is the subtle implication that you can tell a million completely different stories with the same data.

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Having spent an unfortunate amount of time debunking bullshit statistics… yes.

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You just need to pick the pieces you want and discard/ignore the ones you don’t!

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And invent the special pieces you need to tell the story you want.

Where the fuck was that baseplate hiding?

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The baseplate came from the green in the bar graph. As we know all, the base plate is the foundation for any major project. Regardless that the bar graph shows little green compared to everything else. Green is far more important and we should focus all our efforts on the color green.

In a major coincidence, green is the color of money and I am now moving into a bigger house.

Edit: The fact that I got upvotes for a poorly written post amazes me.

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It’s missing the original, before being reduced to data, being completely different from the “story”.

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Not to mention that the story quite obviously does not fit the data at all.

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Well that’s just statistics.

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The relationship between statistics and the base facts is the difference between it being a useful tool or the butt of a Mark Twain’s joke.

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Yeah, like where the hell is all the red? Either there’s a secret chamber under the house, or there is a little bloodbath murder suicide happening in that house

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Where is all that yellow?

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In the lawnmower, the lights on the house, the flowers on the bushes, and in the giant lake of piss behind the house.

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There’s very little similarity between the pictures. White is the 3rd biggest stack, but you can see it’s not dominant on the data.

To;dr it’s all lies

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This was a poor analysis of the data.

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Presented visually > Story

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