Nov
28
I’m down with the Occupy movement, but this is atrocious.
Over the years, I’ve seen many charts cooking the Federal Budget one way or the other. A common dodge is to count debt service as an item without mentioning what the debt spending was earmarked for. Another is to count veteran’s benefits as non-military.
But this is worse.
This chart represents numbers as the lengths of sides of squares, one of the most blatant visual-stats fallacies possible. Thus it manages to portray the (attributed) 59% military budget as being 870 times larger than our (attributed) agricultural budget, when in fact it is a mere 30 times larger. And so forth.
Oh my god.
I love occupy, but people, mind your fucking manners.
(via ilovecharts)
