{"id":6665,"date":"2021-03-15T13:53:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T17:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=6665"},"modified":"2021-03-15T13:53:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T17:53:59","slug":"blog-post-3-16-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/03\/15\/blog-post-3-16-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog post 3\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found this podcast very interesting because at first when I saw this week\u2019s topic was about statistics, I was confused as to the role stats play in humanities. I had never actually considered how graphs we see regularly can be skewed or strategically misrepresented to falsely depict information. While statistics are supposed to be a tool for proving theories and providing insights, the display of these same statistics can be a tool of manipulation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I found this one graph, which was presented at a Congressional committee hearing in 2014. Not surprisingly, this graph was made by anti abortion advocators in attempts to defund Planned Parenthood. They are trying to show that Planned Parenthood has offered less and less cancer\/health services and more abortions. This graph was meant to disprove the many supporters of Planned Parenthood who argue that the organization offers essential health services to women other than abortions. I find it interesting that this graph has no y-axis, so if you look at the actual numbers, the placement of the lines makes very little sense. Also, the fact that the lines intersect is bizarre. Political\/social bias is often extremely prevalent when information is displayed to the public. Obviously, this graph is misleading. I am also going to include a second graph I found on the same website that more accurately displays the information. It includes a y axis and explanations, which greatly help in displaying the information more accurately. These two graphs give off two completely different messages. Absurd. This may be insignificant, but I also noticed the colors of the graph show bias. The cancer screening and prevention services line is in pink, which is globally recognized as a positive symbol of health awareness. The red line for abortions, to me, signifies that abortion is a bad thing (the color red has many negative connotations, including wrong, stop, and blood).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I found this podcast very interesting because at first when I saw this week\u2019s topic was about statistics, I was confused as to the role stats play in humanities. I had never actually considered how graphs we see regularly can be skewed or strategically misrepresented to falsely depict information. While statistics are supposed to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6668,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions\/6668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}