In the past month in China, hospitals, pharmacies, and funeral homes have been overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases, but the scale of the misery is anyone’s guess. The country no longer tallies asymptomatic infections or reliably reports COVID deaths.
In “How to Lie with Statistics,” a best-selling book from 1954, the journalist Darrell Huff details common techniques for manipulating people’s understanding of reality, among them truncating the y-axis of a graph. A trend line starts in a chart’s midsection and moseys up and to the right—a gradual rise over time. But if you hack off empty space at the bottom and zoom in on the action, the line takes off like a rocket. The axis transforms the narrative.
In the past month in China, hospitals, pharmacies, and funeral homes have been overwhelmed, but the scale of the misery is anyone’s guess. The country no longer tallies asymptomatic infections or reliably reportsdeaths—employing not the distortion of statistics but their omission.
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