April 15, 2019

Graphic of the week

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From 1News, via Richard Hills on Twitter, a graphic accompanying their latest opinion poll results.

 

If the picture of Parliament isn’t supposed to have some quantitative relationship to the opinion figures, it shouldn’t be in party colours.

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    Megan Pledger

    It looks to me like they have coloured blue 52% of the seats, got green and yellow correct and then filled the rest red.

    5 years ago

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      Thomas Lumley

      I didn’t think of that as an explanation, but it’s the first one I’ve seen that makes sense (for sufficiently small values of ‘sense’)

      5 years ago

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        Ruatara Paapu

        So, I counted them. There are 59 blue + 1 yellow for 60 to the Right, 52 red + 8 green for 60 to the left.

        seems like they’ve assigned half to the left & right, gotten the minor parties right and coloured the rest red or blue.

        5 years ago