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yellowcanine

(35,703 posts) Mon May 18, 2020, 06:34 PM May 2020

Kemp flunkies get caught manipulating coronovirus data.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/georgias-governor-apologizes-for-chart-that-wrongly-showed-downward-trend-in-covid-19-cases/

Candice Broce, a spokesperson for Kemp, tweeted, “Our mission failed. We apologize. It is fixed."
This was her whole tweet:

The x axis was set up that way to show descending values to more easily demonstrate peak values and counties on those dates. Our mission failed. We apologize. It is fixed.

Ha Ha. Classic manipulation of data - otherwise known as "lying with statistics." Messing with the x axis to skew data is a researcher no-no. Graduate students have been failed and professors have been fired for less.

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Kemp flunkies get caught manipulating coronovirus data. (Original Post) yellowcanine May 2020 OP

We got caught . . . Iliyah May 2020 #1

K&R for visibility. crickets May 2020 #2

K & R Celerity May 2020 #3

There's a quote that goes: "There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." abqtommy May 2020 #4

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)

1. We got caught . . .

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2020, 06:40 PM

May 2020

crickets

(25,987 posts)

2. K&R for visibility.

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2020, 07:44 PM

May 2020

Celerity

(43,632 posts)

3. K & R

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Mon May 18, 2020, 07:48 PM

May 2020

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

4. There's a quote that goes: "There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2020, 08:19 PM

May 2020

While I have heard and read that this quote is attributed to Mark Twain/Sam Clemens it's not from him.
He used it in a book from 1907 but we may never know who originated this quote.

see link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics

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