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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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Why?
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They do make the most noise!

Harold Summer
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What news media portrays every day!

Podunkus
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5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And growing a “bigger pie” won’t make any difference for that problem.

Liz Holloway
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For Damien, and all our nerdy friends. Biting social comment in this!

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    Zoe Murphy
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ummm... why isn’t there a bubble on Southern California????

    Aimee Simmons
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Totally reminds me of the game "Plauge Inc" fun game

    joshua steinert
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    most believable statistical map i have seen in a while.

    Nigel Rodgers
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hans Rosling would have loved this.

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    Jef Bateman
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Raine Soo
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Presidential material, huh? Apparently, you don't need an exceptional IQ to be president. But, I digress...

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    Ann O'Riley
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A person's IQ score was originally calculated by dividing a person's mental age by their chronological age and then multiplying by 100. ... So IQ is a measure of the mismatch between a child's mental and chronological ages. It doesn't mean you're smart.

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    Bill
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wasn't something like this a theme in "1984m"

    SciFi Vortex
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If we are all "Equal", why do we have "job interviews"? Shouldn't the jobs just go to first in best dressed?

    SciFi Vortex
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Exactly. Equality is nonexistent politically correct fabricated fantasy. The proof is that it only applies to humans. "All humans are equal. We all have the same qualities, skills and traits. Saying Negros (generally) are good at singing and dancing or the Scottish and Germans are good at engineering is RACIST!!!. Saying men are stronger than women is SEXIST!! etc.But apparently it's totally OK to say German Shepards are good at being Police/Guard dogs and Kelpies are excellent sheep herders. Or crows are very good at using objects as tools to help them get food and pigeons are useless retards that s**t everywhere. Yes! That's right! Every single living plant and animal species and their various breeds (races) on the planet all have different levels of skills, qualities, abilities. Some are absolutely useless and have no remarkable abilities at all like pigeons, or some are very talented at one skill like sheep herding Kelpies. But not humans. We're all "equal".

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    Jamie S. Martindale
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Adding a straw to the last one, which came up to the "full" line, would make it even better

    Henry Cheves
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    2020 is obviously a kir royale.

    Ann Abdelzaher
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    LOL In this case "half" a caipirinha if done right is enough to knock you on your a$$

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    Ann O'Riley
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OK, how many of you clicked on the right arrow?

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    BeazleBug
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    96.756% of all statistics are made up.

    CJ
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    hahahaha. people didn't get your joke.

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    Joshua Seaman
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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?

    Freya the Wanderer
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. - Attributed (perhaps wrongly) to Benjamin Disraeli, popularized by Mark Twain

    SciFi Vortex
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "You can use logic to justify anything. That's its power. It's also its flaw" - (Captain Janeway, USS Voyager).

    Ann O'Riley
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was always told it was 'Damn statistics.'

    Marcellus the Third
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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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    Mark Howell
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As Winston churchill once said, "... there's lies, damned lies and ther's statistics..." ;o)

    Mauro Murgia
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    actually, no statistics are yelled by people who love or need to lie

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    Brenda Owens
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one should be called politics in action.

    Draco Malfoy
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins. Sorry, I had to

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    NMN
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lol, reminded me of my first semester of college, the Methods in Biology professor almost pulling her hairs off when explaining that you.do.not.connect.the.dots (everyone was doing right, she was probably frustrated with ppl in general, not with the class)

    Imma
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This has nothing with what you said, but I just think it's so funny that the word "semester" means something totally different in Sweden and every time I see it, I think it's funny. I know what it means in this situation, but in Sweden the word "semester" means vacation. I don't know about you, but I think it's hilarious :) sorry for be so off topic.

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    Kristina Thomas
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So many times in the news or in "scientific" reports in social media, people do show correlation, but assume it is proof of causation. That's the cause of so many mistaken beliefs. It's often confirmation bias.

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    Jamie S. Martindale
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nature will remain long after humans have gone

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    Fitriady Budiman
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Everything is belong to Disney (Now)

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    Tiffiny
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At least the pizza is cut through all the way. *cough* domino’s *cough*

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    Kristina Thomas
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Avoid recognizing the lows do exist? :-)

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    NMN
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one reminds me of Master of Olympus game, doric was my favorite when decorating the cities

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    Up All Night
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. The Doric was the shortest and the Corinthian the tallest in reality.

    Kristina Thomas
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is rather arrogant. Some of the things that were the downfall of the Ancient Roman culture are popular again, and you think modern culture is so great and advanced? Ha!!! Human nature never changes.

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    Kristina Thomas
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It really does though. People see something enough, and are told it's good enough times, you don't even need to tell people reasons to buy it. They just buy it.

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    Ian Koch
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    XAXAXAXAXAXAX GET IT? it's because most of their differences are in the brain! XAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXA

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    Ann Abdelzaher
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OH god the agony LOL Reminds me of the hell of doing my PhD

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    Kristina Thomas
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Darn, I've forgotten all about these concepts. I wish I couldgoback to high school now that I know what things I would like to remember from classes.

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    Kristina Thomas
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me too. Quantum physics is the hardest subject. It makes me feel like either I'm a very smart idiot, or scientists are only pretending to understand.

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    Harold Summer
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They are standing of February 2020

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    Electric Ed
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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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    Zophra
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love these and I have a serious question - why is the error bar on the last column not equally spread on either side of the data point? Why is the top bar shorter?

    Harold Summer
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is the joke. The last bar is essentially meaningless because of the large range of error, but the "boss" is happy about the supposed increase.

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    Charles Lafage
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's the joke The mais bar is at the top of a huge error range

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    Susoul Cats
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    took me a bit. but when i figured it out, its so true

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    BeazleBug
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    (paraphrasing)If you needed to use statistics for your result, you should have designed a better experiment.

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    Hazel Gray
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    Oh sh*t, i thought it was sugar

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    Evan D
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    7-the number on top=the number on bottom

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