{"id":12198,"date":"2022-01-28T20:03:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T20:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=12198"},"modified":"2022-01-28T20:03:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T20:03:29","slug":"manipulating-you-with-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2022\/01\/28\/manipulating-you-with-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipulating you with charts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chart graphics have long been used to manipulate the public. Sometimes they are based on accurate data, and sometimes they even show the accurate data, accurately!<\/p>\n<p>But to a propagandist, a chart is merely a tool with which to influence the public to adopt your agenda.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the White House released a chart on social media showing economic growth since the pandemic policies crashed the economy in March of 2020.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Can you spot the problem?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FKHaZFyWYAAP962.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12199\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FKHaZFyWYAAP962-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FKHaZFyWYAAP962-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FKHaZFyWYAAP962-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FKHaZFyWYAAP962-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FKHaZFyWYAAP962-1536x866.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FKHaZFyWYAAP962-479x270.jpg 479w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/FKHaZFyWYAAP962.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look carefully at the Y-Axis. Notice how it goes from -4.0 to +5.0 in increments of 1.0. But magically at 5.0, the same size jump goes to 5.5, and then 6.0.\u00a0 This bizarre Y-axis makes the bar, a right, taller than it should be &#8211; for dramatic effect. And they did not even need to do that to make their point.<\/p>\n<p>When the Y-Axis is magically changed to make one bar appear visually taller than it really is, this is manipulative propaganda messaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House releases a chart on economic growth that has a highly unusual Y-Axis. You may have to look closely to see the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24,26,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facts","category-in-practice","category-lies","category-propaganda-methods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}