[tips] Alas, it is not FOX

2015-11-14 Thread Christopher Green
I must apologize to all and sundry. One of my intrepid grad stats students discovered that the “Obamacare Enrollment” bar graph that I sent around yesterday does not actually come from FOX News, but is from a Saturday Night Live spoof of Fox News. http://www.snopes.com/fox-news-obamacare-enroll

[tips] Nature and Nurture

2015-11-14 Thread Mike Palij
The NY Times has an article on the famous Yufe twins, one who raised as a Jew and the other as a Nazi; see: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/us/jack-yufe-a-jew-whose-twin-was-a-nazi-dies-at-82.html?emc=edit_th_20151114&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=389166&_r=0 Both participated in the Minnesota Twins R

Re: [tips] Most misleading statistical graphic ever?

2015-11-14 Thread Christopher Green
> On Nov 14, 2015, at 7:35 AM, Michael Britt wrote: > Another goodie. Apparently you’ve got quite a store house filled with such > graphs Chris. As a matter of fact, I do have a collection. I use them in my stats classes to show people what NOT to do, and to make them critical of graphics the

Re: [tips] Most misleading statistical graphic ever?

2015-11-14 Thread Rick Stevens
I'm adding these to my collection for my stat class. One thing different about the Planned Parenthood one is that the Y-axis was ascending on one side of the graph, but it was reversed on the other side. This is in addition to the scales being totally off from one side to the other. Rick Stevens S

Re:[tips] Most misleading statistical graphic ever?

2015-11-14 Thread Annette Taylor
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HKF8k5PUvznJo3eKHneJ-GJVjBG5d3t4loBjFUzlvZY/edit?usp=sharing OK, so I think this is the graph, thanks to Miguel Roig for sending it to me, and I think this is also the version to show students for comparison; I lost some of the fancier add on formatting wh

Re: [tips] Most misleading statistical graphic ever?

2015-11-14 Thread Michael Britt
Another goodie. Apparently you’ve got quite a store house filled with such graphs Chris. Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. http://www.ThePsychFiles.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/thepsychfiles/ Twitter: mbritt > On Nov 13, 2015, at 6:30 PM, Christopher Green wrote: > > > > > >