{"id":3574,"date":"2009-04-07T10:59:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T10:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/07\/cbs-polling-for-the-innumerate\/"},"modified":"2009-04-07T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T10:59:23","slug":"cbs-polling-for-the-innumerate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/07\/cbs-polling-for-the-innumerate\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS: Polling for the Innumerate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-c2255833c2aa4eaf7646d7b5b2c3abd2-image4923608.gif\" alt=\"i-c2255833c2aa4eaf7646d7b5b2c3abd2-image4923608.gif\" \/>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2009\/04\/obamas_popularity.php\">Matt Yglesias<\/a>, a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2009\/04\/06\/opinion\/polls\/main4923710.shtml?tag=topHome;topStories\">CBS\/ New York Times Poll<\/a> has been released, accompanied by quite possibly the stupidest graphics ever. The pseudo-pie-chart at right is one of three, all of which have the same glaring flaw as this one.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody really ought to lose their job for this. There&#8217;s just no excuse for putting out &#8220;pie charts&#8221; that are this incompetent.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, this probably went through two or three people before hitting the web, and nobody noticed. It&#8217;s hard to think of a better example of how deeply innumeracy has penetrated the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Matt Yglesias, a new CBS\/ New York Times Poll has been released, accompanied by quite possibly the stupidest graphics ever. The pseudo-pie-chart at right is one of three, all of which have the same glaring flaw as this one. Somebody really ought to lose their job for this. There&#8217;s just no excuse for putting&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/07\/cbs-polling-for-the-innumerate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CBS: Polling for the Innumerate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,9,28,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-math","category-politics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}