Are you brave enough to deal with THE CHART?

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11. If you assume everything is propoganda...

There is nothing unusual about focusing a chart on the area of change. Krugman is an economist and that is how he would present the datum to a class, or in a paper or book.

The fact that folks not accustomed to charts might not read the axis is a fact.

But your identifying the perfectly proper presentation of data as "trickery" is quite silly.

And since the swing is something like 10 million Americans it is hardly a case of creating the appearance of a problem where none exists.

Also... is the objection that somebody could look at the chart and conclude that employment had dropped from 80% to 5% a sensible objection? The reality, if the chart were 1-100% on the x, would be something everyone knows did not happen.

I really have no idea how you think data should be presented, if not to be clear and usable to a person able to read a chart in the first place.