{"id":20523,"date":"2026-03-04T13:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=20523"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:18:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:18:58","slug":"cherry-picking-how-to-lie-with-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/03\/04\/cherry-picking-how-to-lie-with-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry picking: How to lie with charts!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The top graph is the right most edge of the 2nd chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a broader history is seen, in the 2nd chart, the &#8220;big spike&#8221; nearly vanishes. In this case, they are showing both charts so its not really hiding much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"613\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HCkO2rzWgAEynPI.jpeg?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HCkO2rzWgAEynPI.jpeg 613w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HCkO2rzWgAEynPI-541x600.jpeg 541w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HCkO2rzWgAEynPI-243x270.jpeg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Y-Axis of the chart at left is 80 times greater than the Y-Axis in the chart at right. This makes it falsely look like the US $3\/day rate is fluctuating wildly, worse than China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, China&#8217;s $3\/day rate is 7%, while the U.S. is about 1%!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HCluWywaUAAS_L7.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HCluWywaUAAS_L7.png 680w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HCluWywaUAAS_L7-600x362.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HCluWywaUAAS_L7-448x270.png 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kane\/status\/2029320711307968532\">Some one on X normalized the data<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"569\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-352.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-352.png 569w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-352-294x270.png 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is another one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the X-Axis!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-355-1024x563.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-355-1024x563.png 1024w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-355-600x330.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-355-768x422.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-355-491x270.png 491w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-355.png 1216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just change the Y-Axis or cherry pick the data &#8211; a cheap trick the whole family can enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cherry-picking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20523","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20590,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20523\/revisions\/20590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}