{"id":16,"date":"2013-12-05T20:40:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T20:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labmath.org\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2015-02-11T23:46:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T23:46:16","slug":"news-and-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/?page_id=16","title":{"rendered":"Figures Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>How much in taxes??<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/labmath.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Taxes-at-the-Pump-redone.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-443\" alt=\"Taxes at the Pump redone\" src=\"http:\/\/labmath.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Taxes-at-the-Pump-redone-300x198.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>2012 doesn&#8217;t seem so important<\/h1>\n<p>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. \u00a0Isn&#8217;t that the point? \u00a0Well, maybe, maybe not; the point is remarkably well hidden. \u00a0The red bar at 2012 seems to be trying to convince us that something important happened in 2012. \u00a0I don&#8217;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 &#8220;demonstrate&#8221; that in 2012 there was a surge in immigration?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/labmath.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Refigured-Ryan-graph-large.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-273\" alt=\"Refigured Ryan graph large\" src=\"http:\/\/labmath.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Refigured-Ryan-graph-large-1024x272.png\" width=\"614\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labmath.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Refigured-Ryan-graph-large-1024x272.png 1024w, https:\/\/labmath.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Refigured-Ryan-graph-large-300x79.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Dr. David Streiner for bringing this chart to my attention<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much in taxes?? &nbsp; &nbsp; 2012 doesn&#8217;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. \u00a0Isn&#8217;t that the point? \u00a0Well, maybe, maybe not; the point is remarkably well hidden. \u00a0The red bar at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}