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Data speaks for itself (lemm.ee)
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[–] BudgetBandit 96 points 1 month ago (5 children)

May I add this classic?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Fucking lol. I can't believe that shit's real and from Reuters of all places.

I couldn't find the graph on an original Reuters article (they must have gotten embarrassed and pulled it down lmao), but Business Insider still has it on their version of the article

(edit: and this is just time vs murders, not time vs gun deaths, a better statistic for this)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I think the idea behind the graph was to make it look like blood flowing, but the execution was... not the best

[–] Jakeroxs 2 points 4 weeks ago

Would still make more sense if it was reversed lol

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What the actual fuck

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Look at the scale one the left.

(It’s upside down)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know :)

my reply was in disbelief.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I didn’t.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

I thought at first the point was that murders had gone down because they were suddenly technically legal. The inverted scale thing is worse

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

there's actually no fucking way

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

I almost missed the scale on the left. Almost.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

that can't be real.... why would gun deaths go down after such a law is passed? I don't understand the world...

Edit: Oh I read the other comments. Yeah that scale is stupid.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Marlboro

[–] resting_parrot 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Never trust a statistic you didn't take yourself."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Should be 'fake' not 'take', right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

History Trivia: No one outside Germany knows that "Churchill-quote" because it was made up by Nazi propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

After a quick search I found lots of pages that attributed it to Churchill or Goebbels but apparently there is actually no record of one of them saying it.

[–] resting_parrot 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, that was a typo. Whoops

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

"Yes, the pronounced hammer coefficients as evidenced by these repeated indentations in the flattened curve..."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

phacking p-hacking