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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Eddie Wharton
@eddie
Def misleading
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