7 times news channels struggled with polls
News channels love using polls to gauge the mood of the viewers – it’s just that many of them struggle when it comes to the graphics.
1. At least this adds up to 100%, but it does seem like someone Googled “pie chart clip art” at the last minute. And is colourblind.
2.
• This is not
• how you
• present data
3. NBC2 news and weather for Southwest Florida seems to be struggling with the finer points of bar graphs.
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4. We’re 105% sure NBC 6 South Florida got the maths and the pie chart wrong.
5. Canadian channel CTV do some great, insightful polls.
6. They just can’t help themselves.
7. It’s not just north America, 7 News Australia also struggles with polls.
