August 17, 2013

How to lie with barcharts

From the Guardian, a story about a barchart in the Sun portraying the cost of ‘green energy’

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »