{"id":115,"date":"2011-09-19T20:56:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T00:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/?p=115"},"modified":"2011-09-19T20:56:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T00:56:29","slug":"how-to-lie-with-statistics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/2011\/09\/19\/how-to-lie-with-statistics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Lie with Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both of the charts have the same data, but look very different. There is a difference in the size of the lines, making it seem that each chart represents different data. In reality the charts only have a difference in the y axis. In chart one the percentage goes from 40% to 80% and in chart two the percentage goes from 10% to 100%<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/oimg?key=0At3YI-IFJHYkdFEwOGlZUndtdFp6VDJjUDVFUkVwLWc&amp;oid=5&amp;zx=7hqqasrpo5u0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/oimg?key=0At3YI-IFJHYkdDZlR0pMM3VXTS0yN2VpUGxyT3NFOUE&amp;oid=1&amp;zx=ycwkxvtq8vgi\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both of the charts have the same data, but look very different. There is a difference in the size of the lines, making it seem that each chart represents different data. In reality the charts only have a difference in the y axis. In chart one the percentage goes from 40% to 80% and in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/2011\/09\/19\/how-to-lie-with-statistics-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Lie with Statistics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}