Saturday, 20 February 2010

Lib Dems cannot draw graphs

I received the latest version of the Lib Dem focus magazine in the post and found this rather interesting graph:



[Taken from http://www.madeleinekirk.org.uk/]

I put these figures into Open Office and came up with a rather different looking graph:



Although the correct figures are shown on the graph it has been manipulated to give the impression that the Labour vote is only half the level of the other 2 parties standing.

They are bound to play the same trick in areas where the Greens are standing, so the moral of the story is to look at the graphics they are putting out and call them to account when the data is misrepresented.

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