The Understatement: US Wealth Distribution Visualized

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Another bad chart, this time from MoveOn.org:

The most obvious problem with this chart, as correctly identified by Neven Mrgan, is that it doesn’t provide a visual correlation between the population and wealth distributions. In fact, it doesn’t provide a visual display of the population…

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    Thank you! Far too few people understand how to properly illustrate data.
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    I love the “THIS IS NOT WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE”. More amusement from the left - apparently, an objective (read: true...
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