Fox News continues charting excellence

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Fox News traine ses téléspectateurs dans la farine

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Fox News continues charting excellence : Bush cuts
August 6, 2012 to Mistaken Data by Nathan Yau

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.
The value axis starts at 34 percent instead of zero, which you don’t do with bar charts, because length is the visual cue. That is to say, when you look at this chart, you compare how high each bar is. Fox News might as well have started the vertical axis at 34.9 percent. That would’ve been more dramatic.

Voir aussi :

►http://www.forbes.com/sites/naomirobbins/2012/08/04/another-misleading-graph-of-romneys-tax-plan
Another Misleading Graph of Romney’s Tax Plan

#Visualisation #Représentation #Manipulation #Graphiques #Cartographie #Etats-Unis #Politique-Fiscale

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