Highchart of the week
It’s not a piechart, because the wedges don’t add up to anything, which is the only possible justification for a pie chart. On the other hand, unlike the pizzachart it is trying to display numerical data.
Also, “51% of Americans have tried marijuana today” is presumably not the intended reading, but the graphic doesn’t make that as clear as it might.
And the source for the data isn’t a guy named Moe. That’s an abbreviation for Margin of Error. Google suggests the source is a CBS News Poll (PDF report), but that’s from last year.
(via @seanjtaylor)
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Original CBSN reporting of the survey seems to be from Apr 2016 too, with a version of the image appearing on reddit in Oct 2016.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/marijuana-use-and-support-for-legal-marijuana-continue-to-climb/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisugly/comments/5a0wp5/this_one_has_it_all_pie_chart_instead_of_a_bar/
7 years ago