Mistaken Data

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.…

No clue where this is from, but something seems sort of off, no? I guess we should take the title literally. By the numbers… only. I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt though, and assume this was just an honest mistake. Here’s my guess about what happened.

What? I don’t see anything wrong with it.…

This graphic on the history and future of information has been making the…

If there’s anything good that has come out of America’s financial crisis, it’s…

I know next to nothing about the economy, stocks, and investments, but I…

This video shows statistics centered around atheism, claiming that atheism is correlated with…