bad chart thursday
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Science
Bad Chart Thursday: Attack of the Hospital Elevator Buttons
I came across this article in my feed, titled “Why you should never, ever touch that hospital elevator button.” I already knew, based on the title, why I probably shouldn’t touch hospital (and other) elevator buttons: GERMS. But I clicked through anyway, because I’m a sucker for clickbait headlines, and sure enough, this is an article about bacteria. What I didn’t…
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Feminism
Bad Chart Thursday: Exposing Dov Charney & Terry Richardson
I had never thought much of Terry Richardson or Dov Charney, but all the information I’d heard about “them”, until very recently, somehow ended up in the same mental box, as it were. I instinctively thought they were the same person until the so-called “News Media”‘s propaganda machine told me that one is a photographer and one is the head of American…
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Random Asides
Bad Chart Thursday: Useful Tips for Making a Bad Infographic
Today, over at Skepchick HQ, we got a special message from reader Ali that is definitely not spam: We’re trying to get the word out about a new eating disorder that is on the rise called pica. Pica is an addiction to eating things that aren’t food. I wanted to pass along this link to the infographic we just published…
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Random Asides
Bad Chart Thursday: “Gangnam Style” Video Slightly Delays Doomsday
Tuesday’s daily chart over at The Economist demonstrates the horrible price we pay globally by collectively watching “Gangnam Style” more than 2 billion times on YouTube. Assuming that each click meant that the viewer watched the full length of the video, the authors calculate that we have spent a total of 140 million “man” hours globally watching Korean pop star…
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Feminism
Bad Chart Thursday: Not Misogyny
This post is not about misogyny. This post is not about Elliot Rodger. Those sentences I just wrote? They also are not about misogyny or Elliot Rodger. If you think they are, then you are claiming they do not contain the words “this” or “post” or “not” or “about.” You can’t have it both ways, people. Here’s a list of…
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Anti-Science
Bad Chart Thursday: Fox News on Ice
All that hype about the arctic ice melting and how we’re all going to live in water cities built on the backs of dead polar bears? Total bullshit, according to Fox News. I’m sure you’ve seen it by now, the chart showing an INCREASE in polar ice from 2012 to 2013. That’s right. You may have also seen the various…
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Random Asides
Bad Chart Thursday: The Danger of Chairs
Chairs. They’re ubiquitous, such an accepted part of everyday life that no one even thinks twice about them. For as long as we’ve had television and film, falling out of chairs has been a common trope to express shock, clumsiness, or uncontrollable laughter. These days, even genuine accidents are giffed about the Internet without so much as a single person…
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Random Asides
Bad Chart Thursday: Grinding the Axes of Privilege–Racism Edition
Spring is in the air, and the smell of racial privilege is all around, like the sweet, sweet smell of a field of flowers. Fertilized with shit. And without the flowers. This past week alone has given us such gems as “Why I’ll Never Apologize for My White Male Privilege”, written, I believe, by Richie Rich, with help from his…
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