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Nov 24 2009

Can’t Anyone Here Do Percentages?

Posted by Dan Gillmor in Accuracy

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My colleague Steve Doig captured a truly bizarre chart broadcast today on Fox News. Add the numbers to understand why.

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2 Responses to “Can’t Anyone Here Do Percentages?”
  1. Johninnit says:
    November 25, 2009 at 1:22 am

    Nah, nothing out of the ordinary there. must just be they used Diebold machines for the count and they got confused as to what to do when there was more than one GOP candidate.

  2. Rob Gilliam says:
    November 26, 2009 at 1:00 am

    I’m guessing the question was “If xxxx were to run for president in 2012, would you back them?”, asked three times, once for each “candidate”.

    So the numbers are probably correct; the problem comes from the graphics dept. using a pie chart inappropriately.

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