Net favorability is approval-disapproval. It doesn't necessarily say anything about a majority of everything. It depends on the study design.
You probably arent' going to be convinced this isn't "lying with data"™, but in your example, if you were a car guy, which figure would you prefer, the left or the right? The right would be basically useless if you were someone who was in the space and had the context to interpret the figure.
I would prefer a table if I needed the figures that I could use. A bar chart is for a quick comparison by its very nature, and the left one suggests that the Toyota is using four times less fuel than the Honda.
Toyota is using four times less fuel than the Honda.
Only if you didn't read the figure. Which is the point. A car person would never make that mistake.
And I promise, in figure making, we are almost always adjust axis to represent the range of the data. It would be ridiculous not to. It would be a waste of real-estate for any journal or paper. If you are writing a Science paper, you get 5 figures, total. You have to do as much with them as you can. There are plenty of times when we might only adjust in 1/2 of a dimension, but usual its the whole
If Musk's popularity with the right and, to a lesser extent, Soros' minor approval among center right what passes for a left are anything to go by, it's that United States politics is mostly defined by being contrarian.
Would be interesting to see the numbers for Gabe Newell, he always seems to somehow get away with being a billionaire without getting hated the way most publicly famous billionaires are.
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givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 189d
Who did the scaling on that?
It needs to go from -100 to +100.
-80 to +40 is the opposite of beautiful data...
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 189d
Its fine to cut the edges of a figure to the range of your data.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 188d
You're really saying that you like the crap here on the left?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 188d
There is lying with data and then there is lying with data. This ain't lying with data.
The axis are labeled and uniformly scaled. It's fine.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 188d
They're just as labeled and ‘uniformly scaled’ as in my example.
Musk's line looks like he's supported by the majority of Republicans.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 188d
Net favorability is approval-disapproval. It doesn't necessarily say anything about a majority of everything. It depends on the study design.
You probably arent' going to be convinced this isn't "lying with data"™, but in your example, if you were a car guy, which figure would you prefer, the left or the right? The right would be basically useless if you were someone who was in the space and had the context to interpret the figure.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 188d
I would prefer a table if I needed the figures that I could use. A bar chart is for a quick comparison by its very nature, and the left one suggests that the Toyota is using four times less fuel than the Honda.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 188d
Only if you didn't read the figure. Which is the point. A car person would never make that mistake.
And I promise, in figure making, we are almost always adjust axis to represent the range of the data. It would be ridiculous not to. It would be a waste of real-estate for any journal or paper. If you are writing a Science paper, you get 5 figures, total. You have to do as much with them as you can. There are plenty of times when we might only adjust in 1/2 of a dimension, but usual its the whole
silentjohn@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 189d
Everything would be skewed towards unfavorable and they wouldn't have an article otherwise.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 189d
Yes...
That's the point
silentjohn@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 189d
I agree with you...
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 189d
That was also obvious
No idea why you keep stating the obvious but I'm over it
silentjohn@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 189d
You're a bit odd. Blocked.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 189d
If Musk's popularity with the right and, to a lesser extent, Soros' minor approval among
center rightwhat passes for a left are anything to go by, it's that United States politics is mostly defined by being contrarian.CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social · 6 pts · 189d
Would be interesting to see the numbers for Gabe Newell, he always seems to somehow get away with being a billionaire without getting hated the way most publicly famous billionaires are.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 188d
Gabe's crimes :
Zuck's Crimes :
This might be why.
Mortoc@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 188d
Don't forget Zuck's genocide in Myanmar. Everyone else did... https://systemicjustice.org/article/facebook-and-genocide-how-facebook-contributed-to-genocide-in-myanmar-and-why-it-will-not-be-held-accountable/
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 188d
Gabe also funds some kind of marine research, while Zuck funds his purchases of islands from Hawaii.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 188d
But Elon's really popular! He has millions of bots that tell him so on Twitter!
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 189d
Seams like we are all in agreement except for Elon Musk, let's just split him down the middle and unify the country.