Pie chart misuse reaches new level of awfulness

[boyofbadgers]

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



From andlosers, via rhodri's twitter.

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The rat control the cook!

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Well, I suspect what happened was that everyone polled was asked which candidates they would back, rather than which candidate. So they could pick more than one, which is why the pie chart seems to show 193%, which is why they should have used a bar chart instead.