So can we talk about the absolutely stunning duplicity going on here?

…that’s cheating!

HOLY SHIT

That is some DELIBERATELY EVIL data representation. Where is the super villain that designed this fucking graph?

“Okay murders spiked by like well over 1000% but if we turn the graph THIS way, it’s like they went DOWN! HOORAYYYY!!!”

For anyone confused: the red represents the murder rate. Look at the numbers at the y axis. The graph is upside down because, normally, a graph starts at 0 and then goes up, but this one ends at 0.

As we put it in German: never trust statistics you haven’t manipulated yourself

this is fucking disgusting

There, I fixed it.

Holy fuck this is utterly vile.

This is why I believe everyone should have a stats class in highschool. People can moan about math all the way want but things like this affect not only your life but society itself. Being able to read graphs properly, understand statistics… It frees you from so much.