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"The Chart Proves It"

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

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A chart displays data; it never establishes a claim, because every design decision behind it — axis, baseline, interval, omission — was made by someone.

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The same unemployment series yields a crisis or a recovery, depending only on which five years the author plots.

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A visual argument feels checked because it looks quantitative, which is what makes it effective.

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