{"id":2224,"date":"2013-03-17T14:35:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T21:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2013-03-19T23:15:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T06:15:09","slug":"dont-let-your-infographics-mislead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/dont-let-your-infographics-mislead\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t let your infographics mislead!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you look at this TIME infographic, do you think that 3\/4 million Iran\/Afghanistan vets have PTSD? (30% of 2.5 million)<\/p>\n<p>Or did you notice that the caption under the 30% says, &#8220;of veterans treated by the VA&#8221;?<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 40%; float: right; padding: 22px 0 0 22px; text-align: center;\">\n<p class=\"mynote\" style=\"padding: 10px 50px 10px 50px;\">From TIME magazine March 25 2013, Commentary by Joe Klein, &#8220;Ten Years After: A\u00a0National Disgrace&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"TIME infographic that could mislead\" src=\"http:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/post-time-infogr-misleading.png\" width=\"213\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In fact, with the information provided, you can&#8217;t come up with a number of vets, because we aren&#8217;t told how many vets <em>have been treated by the VA.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure this is not intentionally misleading. But I think it <strong>has strong potential to be misinterpreted.<\/strong> Misintepretation is encouraged by both:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the second caption being full of qualifying phrases, in which this important one gets buried.<\/li>\n<li>the relative scale of the numbers and the captions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Furthermore, I question the choice of a <strong>hand grenade icon<\/strong> to represent PTSD. I&#8217;ve read previously in TIME that many vets with PTSD do not act out in dangerous ways.<\/p>\n<p>It would be a tragic irony if many people wrongly conclude that a huge portion of Iran\/Afghanistan\u00a0vets have explosive PTSD, especially since the accompanying editorial mentions that employers are often afraid to hire them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE: This infographic does not appear in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,2138562,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">the web version of the article.<\/a> However, it does appear in the iPad and print issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you look at this TIME infographic, do you think that 3\/4 million Iran\/Afghanistan vets have PTSD? (30% of 2.5 million) Or did you notice that the caption under the 30% says, &#8220;of veterans treated by the VA&#8221;? From TIME magazine March 25 2013, Commentary by Joe Klein, &#8220;Ten Years After: A\u00a0National Disgrace&#8221; In fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/2287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}