Chris Carlson
@chrislarsc.eth
Sorry @w but have to call this out as a prime example of falling for some all-too-common DataViz Bullshit™ The "data artistes" who made this map started from a premise (make people think liberals hate their states and are fleeing to conservative ones) and then went and found some real (but meaningless) data to back that up. They provide the source data at the bottom to fool you ("look, we use legit data so you can trust us!") because they know practically no one will go and look at it. Well I did. And you can too: - https://archive.ph/QCbbf - https://archive.ph/3qQnV New York is the biggest, scariest number on this chart so let's dive in to that one to see what it actually means. Minus 115.6 and RED!!! When you look at this map and read the header at the top, you would think this would mean that the population change from 2010 to 2023 in New York would be really big. Is it though? Nope. 2010 population: 19,399,878 2023 population: 19,571,216 So what numbers did these jackasses actually use? (1/2)
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Chris Carlson
@chrislarsc.eth
These numskulls took the following numbers: - The rate of change in population from 2010-2019: NY +0.4% versus - The rate of change in population from 2020-2023: NY -0.5% -0.5%/0.4% = -125%!!!! "Yay!!! We got our big scary number!!!" Why compare the rate of change over a 10-year period vs a 4-year period? What happened during these time periods? The first one includes Trump's first term, so it's not about the political landscape... Hmmm... Wait, what happened in 2020? Oh right, a global fucking pandemic and the proliferation of remote work! Data visualization is a powerful tool (“a picture says a thousand words”) and people with bad intentions use it to their advantage daily. Be careful out there. Don't trust what you read on the internet, but *really* don't trust what you *see* (2/2)
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Eddie Wharton
@eddie
Def misleading
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