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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (150986)	1/6/2009 2:14:03 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 173976

Pulling a single point off data like that and comparing it to another single point elsewhere on the chart is silly... Yes, but trying to explain things like synchronous sampling and aliasing to a mathematically illiterate person is hopeless. You are also correct that for most people, they should replace the data labels with something from another field (like financial or health related instead of climate) so they can divorce the data from their ideological biases. I often use that stunt myself, and in fact, I try to pick labels where my biases are reversed, so I get a differential bias reality check. Very useful...