Here Are The Tricks Fox Uses To Manipulate Statistics On Its Graphs

[True Earthling]

Jeff Leek at Simply Statistics has a great post that explains how Fox News presents data in a really tricky way.

A lot of the issue comes in the way the data is presented. While most of the time the data is grounded in fact, by skewing the axes, using the wrong kind of chart, or just changing where the points should be on the graph, Fox is able to change the way that the information is interpreted.

As one example, Leek points out this pie chart. When you add up the numbers, it exceeds 100 percent, making a pie chart a poor choice.

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Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-charts-tricks-data-2012-11#ixzz2DYV5rh9z

[DollarBillHines]

1. Fox understands its base

Unfortunately, I know far too many of them.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Worst graphs ever, but all deliberate.

[sakabatou]

3. They always pull this shit off.

[frylock]

4. 193% of the electorate is republican?! maybe unskrewed poles guy was right!