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title: "LibDem misleading bar chart"
date: 2023-07-03 20:40:06 +0100
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LibDem MP Daisy Cooper's newsletter for St Albans contains a misleading
bar chart where a 0% bar will have a height of 6 mm (i.e. the baseline of
the chart is at -3.5%). In other words, if you stack LAB's 9% and CON's 39%
(total 48%), it will be taller than LIBDEM's 50%.

![Measurement and regression analysis][img0]  
[(Signature)][sig0]
![Photograph with measurement (LIBDEM)][img1]  
[(Signature)][sig1]
![Photograph with measurement (CON)][img2]  
[(Signature)][sig2]
![Photograph with measurement (LAB)][img3]  
[(Signature)][sig3]

[img0]: /blog/images/2023-07-03-libdem-bar-chart.0.png
[sig0]: /blog/sig/2023-07-03-libdem-bar-chart.0.png.sig
[img1]: /blog/images/2023-07-03-libdem-bar-chart.1.jpg
[sig1]: /blog/sig/2023-07-03-libdem-bar-chart.1.jpg.sig
[img2]: /blog/images/2023-07-03-libdem-bar-chart.2.jpg
[sig2]: /blog/sig/2023-07-03-libdem-bar-chart.2.jpg.sig
[img3]: /blog/images/2023-07-03-libdem-bar-chart.3.jpg
[sig3]: /blog/sig/2023-07-03-libdem-bar-chart.3.jpg.sig