The data showed on that image contradicts this, it says “percentage change in homicides and police killings since 2015”. This is very clear language, “since 2015, this is the percentage change in homicides and police killings”, not “difference between homicides and police killings in this year to 2015”.
I’m talking about the original chart, not this chart specifically, the language is implying different things, probably showing things that are not real, based on the text that was given.
Percent changed compared to 2015 would be better, but choosing a graph like this makes no sense if it would have been change yoy and also if that were the case then starting at 0% makes no sense.
The data showed on that image contradicts this, it says “percentage change in homicides and police killings since 2015”. This is very clear language, “since 2015, this is the percentage change in homicides and police killings”, not “difference between homicides and police killings in this year to 2015”.
I’m talking about the original chart, not this chart specifically, the language is implying different things, probably showing things that are not real, based on the text that was given.
Percent changed compared to 2015 would be better, but choosing a graph like this makes no sense if it would have been change yoy and also if that were the case then starting at 0% makes no sense.
I agree.
The vague wording is bad, I think they should just use the absolute values and another one with the percentages, that would make it a lot clearer.