Thursday, February 18, 2010

Numbers don't lie, but they can tell stories

From Pollster.com, "Same data, two charts, two different impressions, both fundamentally true yet also fundamentally misleading in opposite ways." A clear, accessible and thoughtful discussion. (Hat tip to Chris.)

1 comment:

David said...

it's that danged calculus again! rates of change. and to think there were people in my class who thought they'd never need that stuff.