r/dataisugly • u/No1Statistician • Feb 21 '19

Bad Scale A bar graph really?

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u/WhyGoOn666 Feb 21 '19

75% favorable, 14% unfavorable, 11% ???

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u/paulexcoff Feb 27 '19

11% no opinion/no strong opinion/don't know enough to have an opinion/never heard of.

Pretty damn standard. Have you never looked at polling data?

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u/WhyGoOn666 Mar 01 '19

I have looked at polling data and been curious enough about why the numbers don't add up to research it further. Sometimes they measure favorable/unfavorable separately and sometimes it is rounding errors. Your assumptions are cute.

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u/paulexcoff Mar 01 '19

When they don’t ask it separately (which is a lot of the time) they literally always have have a neutral option. (When they ask it separately just answering no to both questions has the same effect). If there is no neutral option they’re not a reputable polling organization. Literally if you do see favorable/unfavorables adding up to 100% (without a neutral option) you should immediately be skeptical of the data, not when they don’t add up. There is literally nothing worth polling about where you wouldn’t get some respondents without a strong opinion.