//
Figures Revisited

How much in taxes??

Taxes at the Pump redone

 

 

2012 doesn’t seem so important

The silliest thing about this chart is that by drawing it incorrectly, the author is missing the opportunity to show the true magnitude of the changes.  Isn’t that the point?  Well, maybe, maybe not; the point is remarkably well hidden.  The red bar at 2012 seems to be trying to convince us that something important happened in 2012.  I don’t see it on the original chart, frankly, and if the bars are scaled properly 2012 is even less interesting. Would it surprise you to learn this graph was made by a politician to “demonstrate” that in 2012 there was a surge in immigration?

Refigured Ryan graph large

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Dr. David Streiner for bringing this chart to my attention

 

 

Birth of the Blog

This blog, like the book Lab Math from which it springs (incompletely formed), will be about numbers. I will endeavor to:

1. showcase the basic and the practical, not the challenging or even the advanced;

2.. provide straightforward guidance for the unenthusiastic (“just do it exactly this way”);

3.. provide refreshers for those needing refreshment (whether they know it or not.)