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boyofbadgers ([personal profile] boyofbadgers) wrote2009-11-30 02:16 pm

Pie chart misuse reaches new level of awfulness

I've seen some terrible graphs in my time, but this is just ridiculous.



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[identity profile] martinskidmore.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Could people support more than one candidate? If so, the figures may not be wrong - but putting them into a pie chart was an appalling idea. Also the modern tendency to tilt pie graphs to make them 3-D makes the segments at the bottom look larger than equally sized ones at the top, which defeats the whole point of such a chart.

[identity profile] boyofbadgers.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I didn't think the figures were wrong, it's the (presumably kneejerk) use of the pie chart that was upsetting.