Josh and Jon are back to take a look at statistics; how they are read, and misread by publications, organizations and other media outlets. These methods include Omitting the Baseline, Cherry Picking Data, as well as Going Against Conventions and others. Graphs and charts can be misleading, but they can be harmful if they are deliberately so. In this episode, Josh and Jon attempt to give the listeners a few handy tools to navigate around misleading information.

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