I don't often swear on here, but stop fucking doing this. Gaslighting of the highest order Stop trying to manipulate us by showing part of the graph. We know that what you're showing doesn't look like a 19% increase. Stopping truncated y-axes is a hill I am prepared to die on - ThreadSky

kityates.bsky.social • 89 days ago

I don't often swear on here, but stop fucking doing this.

Gaslighting of the highest order

Stop trying to manipulate us by showing part of the graph.

We know that what you're showing doesn't look like a 19% increase.

Stopping truncated y-axes is a hill I am prepared to die on

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kityates.bsky.social•89 days ago

I swear to god. If I were the head of the UK stats authority, the letter they would be receiving in the next 5-7 business days!

It doesn’t bear thinking about.

sarahgott.bsky.social•89 days ago

They would fail their GCSE maths with a graph like that!

legalleeh.bsky.social•89 days ago

At least it’s not a government account putting this out.

It’s (slightly) more forgivable when it’s a political party’s account than an official HM Gov account.

davewvero.bsky.social•89 days ago

Any decent maths GCSE student would tear strips off that chart.

useyourbrain.bsky.social•89 days ago

I'm thinking about it.

clairehorwell.bsky.social•88 days ago

Wow. This is disappointing.

laineyg.bsky.social•88 days ago

Why aren’t you tagging in Mr Bryant - he does often .

petergallivan.bsky.social•89 days ago

I thought this sort of axis abuse was only the preserve of local lib dem politicians?!

siamonessuno.bsky.social•88 days ago

Abso-fucking-lutely this.

opentelemark.bsky.social•88 days ago

... unless it's a log axis.

gplaz.bsky.social•89 days ago

there is a place for graphs that don't start with y=0. It is where you want to compare multiple points of data and see small differences.
a plot with 2 bars is not that place. it shows nothing and feels very manipulative. just put the numbers there then