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Imagine someone with no fugging clue about what is a graph and who was (Original Post) malaise Oct 2015 OP
We really ought to know what the Secret Service is sitting on. Vinca Oct 2015 #1
Yes indeed malaise Oct 2015 #2
Does it make you miss anybody? libodem Oct 2015 #3
LOL malaise Oct 2015 #4
Thought you might like it libodem Oct 2015 #5

Vinca

(50,249 posts)
1. We really ought to know what the Secret Service is sitting on.
Sun Oct 4, 2015, 05:40 PM
Oct 2015

He'd be third in line for the presidency after all. I imagine it's only a matter of time before someone blabs.

malaise

(268,846 posts)
2. Yes indeed
Sun Oct 4, 2015, 06:01 PM
Oct 2015

One of their own will spill the beans - there's a bloodbath going on among those scumbags.
The sad truth is that he really thinks he has leadership qualities.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/congressman-chaffetz-misleading-graph-smear-planned-parenthood
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But look at the actual numbers in the graph. They show that in 2006, Planned Parenthood performed 2,007,371 anti-cancer services and 289,750 abortions. By 2013, the gap had closed slightly, but the group still performed many more anti-cancer services than abortions, 935,573 to 327,000.

Why does it seem otherwise? Because the “graph” has no y axis, which allows its creators to simply plot the results wherever they choose in order to create a compelling visual effect. That’s how 327,000 is made to look like a much larger number than 935,573.

What the slide actually shows, of course, is that the number of abortions performed by Planned Parenthood rose very modestly between 2006 and 2013, while the number of anti-cancer services it performed did indeed fall by more than half. But Richards said some of the services, like pap smears, dropped in frequency because of changing medical standards about who should be screened and how often. Displaying that information on an actual graph would show the line for abortions rising very slightly over the 7-year time period, and the line for anti-cancer services dropping, but always remaining far above the line for abortions.

Of course, that wouldn’t have made a very striking image for Chaffetz to display for the TV cameras.

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He's a dunce, a fucking fraud or both

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