A Tale of Two Graphs
Check out these two nifty graphs showing the same data (more or less) in two completely different ways, in order to make two diametrically opposed arguments. First, from Samizdata: We are winning, in which US and British fatalities in Iraq are plotted over time, with a breakdown into combat and non-combat deaths. Then, after you’ve chewed on that for a while, check out this chart from Professor Ed Stephan at Western Washington University: US fatalities in the conquest of Iraq (thanks to Warblogging for the link).
Cool, huh?
October 1st, 2003 at 11:00 am
Reminds me of the recent “good” news about unemployment where the _rate_ at which the U.S. is losing jobs is going down.
October 2nd, 2003 at 7:30 pm
(A picayune point first: my name’s Stephan, not Stephen - but you got the URL right and that’s really all that matters.) Thank you for putting those both up together — the comparison would make a good case study in a book on statistics or logic.
October 2nd, 2003 at 7:37 pm
Oops. Sorry about that. As somone whose trailing ‘er’ always seems to turn into ‘ar’, I can appreciate the low-level annoyance factor. I’ve corrected it.