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Warpy

(111,437 posts)
1. Showing only the top of a bar or line graph
Mon Mar 31, 2014, 04:31 PM
Mar 2014

is the right's favorite way to lie with statistics, to make things look a lot worse than they really are.

 

darkangel218

(13,985 posts)
4. Whats even more absurd is that their audience believes them
Mon Mar 31, 2014, 04:40 PM
Mar 2014

They get away with anything. Their flock never questions them.

It's sickening.

Ms. Toad

(34,126 posts)
15. Unfortunately, people on both sides of the aisle do that -
Mon Mar 31, 2014, 05:35 PM
Mar 2014

Although most people do at least show that the graph starts at 6,000,000 rather than zero.

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