‘The world’s most deceptive graph in As we speak’s Occasions’
The Occasions has been slammed for a ‘shockingly deceptive’ bar chart, which checked out simply how standard Boris Johnson is with Conservative voters.
The bar chart is entitled: “What do Tory voters assume? Q: Given the selection, would you like that Boris Johnson was nonetheless prime minister in a 12 months’s time, or would you like another person?
The bar chart beneath, contemplating the numbers, is clearly not the way you’d visually characterize the odds. Studying the precise figures relatively than simply the graphic exhibits simply how unsuitable the Occasions acquired it.
The most important bar is for Johnson to stay prime minister, with simply 25% of these requested saying they supported him remaining in energy.
Nevertheless, the following bar is smaller, regardless of 60% of respondents saying that they would favor another person to be PM.
The chart websites as its supply a YouGov ballot carried out between June 22-23 based mostly on 1,671 adults and provides: ‘Outcomes present those that voted Conservative in 2019.”
The Occasions obtained a lot ridicule on-line for the chart.
Marketing campaign group Greatest for Britain known as it ‘the world’s most deceptive graph in As we speak’s Occasions’, whereas creator and scriptwriter John O’Farrell tweeted: “The bar chart in at present’s Occasions exhibits simply how standard Boris Johnson nonetheless is with Conservative voters.*
“*if you happen to solely take a look at the graphic and don’t learn the precise figures”.
LFF has approached the Occasions for remark.
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