Buy a calculator, morons.

193% irony when you look at who posted this video

"SOURCE: OPINIONS"

haha

...when you just outright completely run out of facts...

Didn't Fox say they were going to start firing people for making mistakes? How is anyone still employed?

The underlying data is sound, but the graphic artist was just really really hungry when they asked him to pick out a chart.

"Mmmm...pie..."
"I don't know, man. I think this might be better suited to a bar gra..."
"PIE!"

Proper use of a pie chart, that was.

It's the video my username has been waiting for.

Um... people were able to choose more than one candidate in the poll, perhaps?

^yes that might be, but then a pie chart would still not be the correct representation of the data.

Here's a chart for selecting charts.

Start at the middle and work your way out to find the right one for you!

For this particular survey I would suggest Comparison -> among items -> one variable per item -> few categories -> few items.

per cent...clearly lost on someone in Fox News - Math *fail

Adding video to channels (Fail) - requested by Zonbie.

I doubt any of the fox loyal news viewers would catch the mistake. If they(fox) repubs even want a chance in 2010 they shuld go with Huckabee. He's the only one I would consider voting for out of that bunch!

My bet is it was based on a survey of three people. It's easy to make mistakes when you have to deal with large numbers.

Good to see Huckabee getting so much support. He's obviously a man with impeccable decision making abilities. Take for instance, his commuting of a 95 year sentance for Maurice Clemmens. I don't suppose it's any reflection on Huckabee that Clemmens just killed 4 cops in Seattle.

That is possible if you were allowed to pick more than one person for the survey. Bad way to display the data if that was the case though...

TheFreak: Yeah, well he SAID he believed in god now and he would go to church every sunday! Isn't that good enough for you?

Romney has some judgement problems too, he once went on a car trip with his family and there wasn't enough room for the dog inside the car, so he strapped the pet carrier to the roof, when brown streaks started appearing in the rear window he just stopped at a gas station, sprayed it off and kept going. That's part one of his bad judgement... Part two was, when asked about a time where he'd showed good judgement in the past he decided to share the above story... (I am not making this up!)

I think the data was supposed to represent what % of the GOP base would back each candidate. As demon_ix pointed out, the flaw was in the use of a pie chart rather than a bar chart. I love how Fox's production department is actually an editorial department. Too bad for them that they are dumb. They're taking Kirk Cameron's advice to "bypass the intellect".

Jesus is not bound by the laws of the universe, he bends it to his will. This includes pie charts that exceed 100%.

It seems likely they forgot a decimal point(s), and the total that would vote for ANY of the 3 is 19.3% Of course, those at Faux News don't have the book learning needed to do this kind of higher (above 2nd grade level) math, so there's no surprise here.
Where is QM? He should be posting here supporting Faux News and explaining how these numbers are correct.

I have a pie chart:

"Does Fox know how to graphically represent data?"

>> ^SlipperyPete:
I have a pie chart:
"Does Fox know how to graphically represent data?"


Wow! According to your chart, they're wrong at least 193% of the time!

*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by littledragon_79.

Going back to the Kirk Cameron videos:

"bypass your intellect!"

Math = science = evil

Raptor riding jesus approves of Fox statistics!

Don't people understand the difference between a local fox station and the fox news network? This is from a local fox affiliate in Chicago, and not the national fox news network. There is a difference, and the implication is that this video is from the fox news network, which it is not. I'm not even American and I know this!

>> ^grevs:
Don't people understand the difference between a local fox station and the fox news network? This is from a local fox affiliate in Chicago, and not the national fox news network. There is a difference, and the implication is that this video is from the fox news network, which it is not. I'm not even American and I know this!


Comment upvoted because it's true, but this isn't "FOX 5 - The Right Channel In Podunk, Nowhere", this is Fox Chicago, an affiliate in the third largest city in the nation. They should have the resources to attract talent that doesn't make these sorts of mistakes.

Besides, it's fun to bash ideologues.