This is great. And frightening. But mostly great.
According to Wonkette:
"...this fun “info-graphic” on the Fox News, which explains how Sarah Palin’s supposedly strong 70% support from GOP idiots is still no match for Huckabee’s 63% support, or Romney’s 60%. What?"Really, the only problem here is Fox's use of a pie chart. It makes sense that a single Republican might support more than one potential candidate, thus accounting for the given percentages.
But clearly, the people in Fox's digital department have forgotten that key lesson we all learned in 3rd grade math class. Sorry guys, but the pieces to a pie chart must add up to 1 whole, or in this case, 100%.
A more appropriate graph would have been a bar chart.
Fox News, write this down. A bar chart. Beacon Learning Center provides a graph tutorial which describes the different charts one can use for various types of data.
Happy learning! Remember, Fox News, knowledge is power.
2 comments:
In the world of mavericks and rouges pie charts can add up to whatever they damn well please.
Oh goodness, it does bring to mind the slimy thing-under-a-rock that was Bush's "modern take" on the pyramid infographic,
http://www.uota.org/newsletters/images/food_pyramid.jpg
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