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Generalize pokes; drop citations from OG card
- Rewrite pokes to name the sin itself, not our sample's exact numbers (a visitor didn't "start at 90" — they mis-set the baseline) - Remove the "cited:" line from the OG card; citations stay on the page Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XPEvmMbac2fCvKXpQcovj8
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title: "The Dual-Axis Deception"
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summary: "Two unrelated series on two independent axes, engineered to look correlated."
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poke: "Two y-axes, tuned until the lines kiss. Congratulations — you can now make anything 'cause' anything."
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poke: "Two y-axes, scaled until the lines overlap — and suddenly anything 'causes' anything."
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category: "False Relationships"
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severity: 5
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tags: ["dual axis", "correlation", "line chart"]
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title: "Pie Chart Overload"
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summary: "Eight near-identical slices no human eye can rank. A bar chart was right there."
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poke: "Eight slices, three of them the same size. Nobody can read this. A bar chart could."
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poke: "More slices than anyone can rank by eye. A bar chart was right there."
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category: "Chart-Type Abuse"
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severity: 3
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tags: ["pie chart", "part-to-whole", "comparison"]
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title: "The Truncated Y-Axis"
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summary: "Chopping the baseline off a bar chart to make small differences look enormous."
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poke: "You started the y-axis at 90. That's not a bar chart — it's a magic trick."
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poke: "Your bars don't start at zero. That's not a bar chart — it's a magic trick."
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category: "Misleading Scales"
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severity: 4
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tags: ["bar chart", "axis", "exaggeration"]
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