How to Lie With Charts: US Fatalies Declining in Iraq!


	How to Lie With Charts: US Fatalies Declining in Iraq!

jklugman

3-16-2006 3:31 PM

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        AOL News Falsely Suggests Dramatic Decline In U.S. Fatalities In Iraq              </h2>
            <p>AOL News has a chart — in a section called “Where Are We Headed” — that makes it appear that casualties in Iraq are <a href="http://news.aol.com/dailypulse/031306?id=20060313104209990001&amp;ncid=NWS00010000000001">dramatically declining</a>:</p> <p></p><center><img src="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/aolchart.JPG" alt=""></center>
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<p>Of course, we’re less than three months into 2006. Here is what an intellectually honest chart looks like (click for <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/realchart.JPG">full size</a> version):
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