04-22-2021, 06:48 PM
(04-22-2021, 02:00 PM)Duchess Wrote: ...and the way it hangs in the air freaks me the fuck out. I told you guys I had envisioned it like bats flying out of people's mouths every time they talked, and then I saw the analogy and accompanied graphics showing how it lingers like cigarette smoke in a room. Fucking hell, just fuck.
Statistics and graphs are extremely easy to manipulate, especially when appealing to emotion rather than rationality. This is why I encourage people to be careful about consuming media.