Total Pageviews

Sunday, February 21, 2016

ARGO sea temperature data


















To show a rising trend, the chart shows hundredths of a degree C. on the vertical axis !

The rising trend from 2004 to 2014 is actually MUCH too small to care about.

An honest chart would look like straight line.

By not starting the vertical axis at zero, the data are made to look like huge mountains and valleys, rather than a flat plain!


How to Lie with Statistics 101  is shown above.