CIS 3365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lie Detection, John Tukey
16 Dec 2020
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Much of the 20th century thinking about graphics has focused on the question of how charts might fool a viewer. The use of graphics for serious data analysis was largely ignored. At the core of the preoccupation was the assumption that data graphics were mainly devices for showing the obvious to the ignorant, which led to two fruitless paths. The graphics had to be alive, communicatively dynamic, overdecorated and exaggerated (otherwise, the dullards would fall asleep) The main task of graphical analysis was to detect and denounce deception (because the dullards could not protect themselves) It was only in the 1960s that john tukey (1915-2000) started making statistical charts respectable, putting an end to the view that graphics were only for decorating numbers. New designs and their effective use in the exploration of complex data. Not a word about deception, just beautiful graphics as instruments for reasoning. False graphics are still with us, deception must always be confronted and demolished.
