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Bad Chart Thursday: Your State’s Burning Health Concerns

Maps based on data gathered from Google Trends are everywhere, especially those that attempt to sum up each state based on randomly chosen attributes. For example, the real estate site Estately.com recently published a map of “Each State’s Most Embarrassing Google Searches.” How do they decide what is embarrassing? Pretty much by typing into Google Trends what the author would…