I'm a digital artist and visual developer, or vice versa, living in Belgium (Europe that is). Yet, I do like my analog pencil, not because I can draw (which I can't), but it allows me to think more freely. I wanted to draw comics when I was young, but then I became an engineer and ended up doing 3D animation and post-production. So I tend to do anything "visual" I like... like now, drawing cartoons again as I did 30 years ago.
In November 2019, I found my niche in statistics and them being (mostly) (ab)used in science, media, politics... And though I intended to steer clear from current affairs, a few months after I started the series, the earth was struck with Corona, media was flooded with statistics, and I couldn't help but touch upon the topic, gently. I do prefer the absurd and witty, however.
Not always succeeding, but plenty of ideas to keep trying. The top spot and a true master in that field? Tom Gauld, whose work I truly admire (and he can draw).
So here is my absurd cartoon series with the occasional glimpse of reality. I hope you enjoy it. And if you do, find out more on my Instagram.
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I have a similar problem with a person I have known for a long time. Her IQ tested as "exceptional," so she smugly assumes that she is right about everything without doing the necessary research to come up with a well-reasoned opinion. While it might make her good presidential material, it is frustrating at times.
Is it just my interpretation, or does this Venn diagram say that statistics are both truth and lies… rather than that statistics can be used to back both truth and lies?
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. - Attributed (perhaps wrongly) to Benjamin Disraeli, popularized by Mark Twain
"You can use logic to justify anything. That's its power. It's also its flaw" - (Captain Janeway, USS Voyager).
That's an unrelated quote (quoted, not invented by Mark Twain): "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." So there they very much not lie between truth & lie, there statistics lies at the far end of the lies...
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As Winston churchill once said, "... there's lies, damned lies and ther's statistics..." ;o)
I saw this kind of fudging of data in the wild once (with a pie chart) and fell for it. Luckily the result so weird someone had me take a second look.
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Statistics show that the average person has one ball and one boob. Thats a fact!
These are really good, thank you! Old proverb: Don't trust a statistics that you didn't forge yourself.
Nice one. Can see a cartoon coming...
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Statistics show that the average person has one ball and one boob. Thats a fact!
These are really good, thank you! Old proverb: Don't trust a statistics that you didn't forge yourself.
Nice one. Can see a cartoon coming...
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