Ben Hyde sends me this:

It’s even worse than it looks because the numbers are wrong too.

Why, oh why, do people only send me the bad stuff? From “dporn” to chartjunk . . .

[Cross-posted at the Monkey Cage]

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Andrew Gelman is a professor of statistics and political science and director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University.