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Re:Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal... by munk-a on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:16PM (#23260343)
Talking about terrible statistical presentation - I don't know if you saw this graph[1] that Georgia published displaying corona virus impact but if not... there is something a bit off with it.

1. https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/05/19/18/28584104-8336989-...

Re:Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal... by brewdad on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:42PM (#23260789)
That one is so bad and so obvious to anyone who takes the time to actually read the labels that it feels like a case of malicious compliance. A boss needed a chart to support a falling case count and someone made him a visually appealing one while also showing the trend is BS.
Re:Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal... by joshuahedlund on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:13PM (#23262469)
As someone who has been watching GA's charts closely over the last few weeks, I actually disagree in this case. It was one chart of several on the page, and not even the most prominent[0], the other charts were still in the right order, and this chart still showed an overall downward trend even put in the correct order. As someone who has dealt with coding lots of data into charts and making frequent changes to them and seen how bugs easily sneak in, I find mistake more likely than malice.

[0]https://dph.georgia.gov/covid-19-daily-status-report