Mike Palij suggests:
" As a class project I would suggest students find figures, especially in Tier
1 journals, that use truncated figures and determine (a) does the truncation
facilitate understanding or (b) mislead the reader.
I predict: (1) There number of truncated figures found will be >> 1
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:24:28 -0800, Rick Froman wrote:
Mike Palij asks:
"It could just be me but what exactly is misleading in the
"uncorrected"
figures. Wikipedia has an entry on misleading graphs that provides (a)
specific types of misleading techniques and (b) Tufte's rules for
measuring
Suppose I did a study of persons impressions on viewing graphs of various
styles. I might cite the tweet that started this discussion as an example.
The inline citation might read like this: "Examples of potentially confusing
graphics are regularly presented by media 'watchdogs' (e.g., Keller, 2
Mike Palij asks:
"It could just be me but what exactly is misleading in the "uncorrected"
figures. Wikipedia has an entry on misleading graphs that provides (a)
specific types of misleading techniques and (b) Tufte's rules for measuring
distortion in figures. Which violations of good practice
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 04:08:52 -0800, Rainer Scheuchenpflug wrote:
Dear Tipsters,
one of my students pointed me to a tweet by JK Keller which
contains an excellent example of a misleading diagram:
https://twitter.com/jk_keller/status/410498080765919232
Could be useful in a research methods clas
Good one! Thank you for posting it.
Miguel
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Subject: [tips] How to lie with statistics: Example
Dear Tipsters,
one of my students pointed me
