Stephen Downes

As Erik Ekholm says, "using a bar graph that doesn't start at 0 is always the wrong choice." This isn't exactly novel invormation. Ekholm is describing the 'Gee Whiz Graph' as described by Darrell Huff in his 1954 How to Lie With Statistics. I think the real story here is that publicists are still pulling the same moves in 2025 and are still getting away with it. If only there were some way to enable people to protect themselves against manipulations like this.