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How To Lie With Numbers 2 - Laffer Nonsense From The WSJ | 34 comments (34 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

I posted this in your other diary, but I was wondering what you think of Hans Rosling's approach to representing statistical data:

What do you think of Hans Rosling, his GapMinder software, and his two presentations at TED:
Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
New insights on poverty and life around the world
?

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.

by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Wed Oct 24th, 2007 at 08:35:47 AM EST

Thanks for the tip (4.00 / 3)

I've never seen it before, so I'll refrain from commenting on it at the moment. It looks very interesting, though and I'll certainly take a look at it sometime.

But for the moment I've got an exam coming up that I'd really rather prefer to pass, and I'm going to make another diary about lying with numbers before I get around to Rosling - the Iraqi casualty presentation that ceebs dug out is too good (bad) to pass up.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Oct 24th, 2007 at 04:10:23 PM EST
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