Data & Infographics: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #8
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Date: 2022-04-04
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while i agree that seeing the entire scale of the chart is important, it could be misleading, too. Sometime there is a line in your progress that, once you cross, it will be significantly harder to improve. Like, Germany economy grew 1, 5% in 2018, while Vietnam - a middle lower income, developing country - grew 7, 08% in the same year. If you put that in a -fair- chart, Germany will seem to be outperformed by Vietnam, while we all know it's the opposite. Another example can be found in videogame: You could easily go from level 1 to level 10 in the matter of days, but level 80 to 81 will require months of grinding. It's doesn't mean that level 80 player are worse than a newbie; he just have to deal with a much higher requirement to advance, espescially when compare with new players.
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while i agree that seeing the entire scale of the chart is important, it could be misleading, too. Sometime there is a line in your progress that, once you cross, it will be significantly harder to improve. Like, Germany economy grew 1, 5% in 2018, while Vietnam - a middle lower income, developing country - grew 7, 08% in the same year. If you put that in a -fair- chart, Germany will seem to be outperformed by Vietnam, while we all know it's the opposite. Another example can be found in videogame: You could easily go from level 1 to level 10 in the matter of days, but level 80 to 81 will require months of grinding. It's doesn't mean that level 80 player are worse than a newbie; he just have to deal with a much higher requirement to advance, espescially when compare with new players.
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R-dolfs
About data visualization manipulation on the graduation rate statistics at 9: 50. Showing scale from 0% to 100% might not be the most -correct- way either. Consider a counterfactual example: in 2009 it climbs from 80% to 90%, but in 2010 it climbs from 90% to 100%. In the 0%-100% scale it would look like a similar climb, but it would be much much more difficult to get from 90 to 100 percent than from 80 to 90 percent. I have no idea how to present such date correctly. Logarithmic scale is not good either.
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About data visualization manipulation on the graduation rate statistics at 9: 50. Showing scale from 0% to 100% might not be the most -correct- way either. Consider a counterfactual example: in 2009 it climbs from 80% to 90%, but in 2010 it climbs from 90% to 100%. In the 0%-100% scale it would look like a similar climb, but it would be much much more difficult to get from 90 to 100 percent than from 80 to 90 percent. I have no idea how to present such date correctly. Logarithmic scale is not good either.
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Almarma
I'm glad to see this topic all over the internet, thank you. The problem we have is that big companies and politicians have psychologists working for them. Yes, psychologists working for marketing agencies who are specialist in manipulation. It's quite hard to fight against them, but videos like this can help. I don't know how those people can sleep knowing they are lying
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I'm glad to see this topic all over the internet, thank you. The problem we have is that big companies and politicians have psychologists working for them. Yes, psychologists working for marketing agencies who are specialist in manipulation. It's quite hard to fight against them, but videos like this can help. I don't know how those people can sleep knowing they are lying
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Art
The bottom line is that Serena tried to play the gender card and she not only got fact checked but roundly criticized for being a spoiled tennis brat. She ruined the tournament.
The most you could argue was that the data was inconclusive not that Greenwald was disproven. But either way the fact remains that men got punished not just women and Serena is a cry bully.
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The bottom line is that Serena tried to play the gender card and she not only got fact checked but roundly criticized for being a spoiled tennis brat. She ruined the tournament.
The most you could argue was that the data was inconclusive not that Greenwald was disproven. But either way the fact remains that men got punished not just women and Serena is a cry bully.
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Tomaz
How do I determine a source is reliable? I understand that all of these techniques are very important in the wilderness of the internet, especially social media, and should be used, but I just can't afford the time it takes to evaluate every single news article I read from a place I trust
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How do I determine a source is reliable? I understand that all of these techniques are very important in the wilderness of the internet, especially social media, and should be used, but I just can't afford the time it takes to evaluate every single news article I read from a place I trust
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CharlesDuche
I the last Chilean elections, the candidate that won used many charts purposely made to mislead, but people only noticed when they made a bar chart were the smaller data set was the longer bar, so people began retrospectively question his data. He still won though.
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I the last Chilean elections, the candidate that won used many charts purposely made to mislead, but people only noticed when they made a bar chart were the smaller data set was the longer bar, so people began retrospectively question his data. He still won though.
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Nathan
The underlying power of statistics is that they allow us to make quantitative predictions and then test very precisely how good those predictions were and how confident we are about that and this is often much more precise than when describe something qualitatively.
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The underlying power of statistics is that they allow us to make quantitative predictions and then test very precisely how good those predictions were and how confident we are about that and this is often much more precise than when describe something qualitatively.
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Brian
Relevant to this video: although it's quite old, the book How to Lie With Statistics is a great book about this topic.
(It was written in the 1950s, though, so be aware you ought to multiply any dollar amount by about 10 to get its value in 2019 dollars)
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Relevant to this video: although it's quite old, the book How to Lie With Statistics is a great book about this topic.
(It was written in the 1950s, though, so be aware you ought to multiply any dollar amount by about 10 to get its value in 2019 dollars)
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iceflame12
You remind me of Daniel Jackson/Michael Shanks from SG-1 back in the day.
I love your series. but I've noticed a change in you recently. Hope all is well with you man. take care
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You remind me of Daniel Jackson/Michael Shanks from SG-1 back in the day.
I love your series. but I've noticed a change in you recently. Hope all is well with you man. take care
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P-teris
World going to kitter? No worries, just watch John and friends at CrashCourse for your daily dosage of common sense. This course in particular is so on topic. Big thanks!
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World going to kitter? No worries, just watch John and friends at CrashCourse for your daily dosage of common sense. This course in particular is so on topic. Big thanks!
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