Mistaken Data

Last week, graduate student Michael J. LaCour was in the news for allegedly…

Last month, This American Life ran a story about research that asked if…

A data-centric look at New England Patriots fumble rates at home made the…

A short post on Bloomberg from 2013 describes the fall of U.S. mens’…

Most people probably wouldn’t think much about this poster that shows the values…

By way of David Kennerr, something in this CNN frame seems off.…

Shutterfly sent promotional emails that congratulate new parents and encourage them to send…

Pornhub continues their analysis of porn viewing demographics in their latest comparison of…

Because Fox News. See also this, this, and this. [Thanks, Meron]…

From the Winnipeg Sun. Something isn’t right here. [via]…

I knew things were bad, but I didn’t know they were this bad.…

Fox News tried to show the change in the top tax rate if…

The Mitt Romney campaign put this venn diagram up a few days ago,…

Garbage in, garbage out the old adage goes. Nigel Hawkes, Director of Straight…

From Gizmodo, this shows battery size in the new iPad versus that of…

Charts and graphs are great, because they can let you see a pattern…

The argument behind this graph in The Wall Street Journal is that the…

President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address yesterday, and this…

I was going to post this graphic from Good when it came out,…

Shady research from Harvard scientist Marc Hauser is confirmed:
On Friday, Michael D.…