Thursday, November 19, 2009

GET CRANKY: 44%

-- "Yesterday's poll" in Vancouver 24 hours on November 17, 2009

What the fuck is going on at 24 hours? The past week has not been good for the "Yesterday's poll" section of 24 hours. First there was this post, and then there was this post. Today's post, however, takes the cake. Once again, the color key is off, but unlike the previous two posts, it's not merely a matter of swapped colors. Which number is higher, 44 or 56? 56, right? Therefore, the portion of the pie that is orange - that is, the color that 24 hours has designated to represent 56% - should be larger than the portion of the pie that is blue and represents 44%.

But the orange portion is smaller - much, much smaller - than the blue portion. Far smaller than the 44% it would have been if 24 hours had just stuck to its annoying habit of swapping the colors. It looks to me like the blue portion of the pie, which should be 44%, is about 80%, while the orange portion of the pie, which should represent 56%, is about 20%.

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