December 5, 2013
My head hurts. I need my 61st cup of coffee.
I was sent a link by Whale Oil to this “awesome” infographic over on the NZ Herald:
For a while, I just couldn’t figure out how on earth they calculated that Kiwis each drink an average of 22,500 cups a year, which equates to over 61 cups of coffee a day!
The 3.7kg of coffee a year figure in the infographic comes from Wikipedia.
However, if you Google “coffee facts New Zealand”, the third result is this page which contains those figures of 7.3 billion cups of year and 22,500 cups per person. The page appears to have been written back in 2009. I guess this is how research is done these days.
Update: The infographic has been edited to remove those figures.
Lazy ‘Data Journalism’ I guess…maybe you should forward them this link: http://datajournalismhandbook.org/
11 years ago
and today in the Herald – Not so much a stat – just poor use of data
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11167725
Yes the house sold for $1.4m more than originally paid – but you don’t think the rebuild / extension might have taken up some of that “profit”?
11 years ago
And very weak coffee. I work 3.7Kg of coffee to fill 22,500 cups is 0.16g per cup. Not even good enough for lemmas.
11 years ago