There was a time not that long ago when a hundred covid deaths…
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Increasing mortality baseline
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Euler diagram to illustrate base rate fallacy
Some people point out that vaccinated people are still hospitalized as a defense…
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Rate of change in Covid-19 cases
We’re all familiar with the Covid-19 line charts that show cases over time,…
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xkcd: Base Rate
xkcd points out the importance of considering the baseline when making comparisons:…
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Adjust Your Baseline for Better Comparisons (The Process 093)
The right baseline provides a way to compare everything else in a useful way. The wrong baseline makes the rest of the data useless.
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Missing deaths
The daily counts for coronavirus deaths rely on reporting, testing, and available estimates,…
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Bar Chart Baselines Don’t Have to Start at Zero? (The Process #66)
False.
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Adjusting the Point of Reference to Highlight Different Aspects of the Data (The Process #49)
They provide an anchor in your charts, and you compare everything else against the anchor. Where you set the anchor changes your chart completely.
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Line Chart Baselines Do Not Have to Start at Zero (The Process #39)
There was renewed interest in — gasp — truncated axes this week, a never-ending debate about whether starting axes at non-zero is misleading.
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Useless Data Comparisons
Apples and oranges situations where the comparisons make no sense.
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Misleading Medicaid funding with the baseline
The administration tweeted a chart that shows the Senate Republican health care bill…
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Shift Your Point of View to When America Was “Better”
How good or bad something is depends on what you compare against.
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Trump bar chart baselines are the worst baselines. Sad.
The Donald Trump campaign has a habit of highlighting poll results with a…
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Sometimes the y-axis doesn’t start at zero, and it’s fine
It’s true. Sometimes it’s okay for the y-axis to start at a non-zero…
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Serial views
Like many, I’ve been listening to Serial every week, but I always just…
