Lying with pictures: Smartphone manufacturer share by OS
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Lying with pictures: Smartphone manufacturer share by OS
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#2Hey Nielsen, we don't care who's paying you, windowsphone will NEVER be the third ecosystem.
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#3Maybe they hired whoever does the Fox News info graphics.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/12/12/today-in-dishonest-f...
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#4Quite staggering when the proportions are corrected in the diagram.
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#5Why? Because if you make them perfectly proportional, the labels are hard to read. ;-)
For example, try actually making sense out of the second diagram on that site. It's far harder to read than the first. You can actually only make sense of it by cross-referencing with the first diagram.
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#6That is incredible -- I'm pretty sure a professional statistical research organisation appreciates power of manipulation of humans through visual effect.
If they pull the line that it was a mistake on the artistic front to get the text to fit into the boxes, I'll file that under criminal neglect.
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#7The original person who noticed this was a writer from 9to5mac and he made his own more accurate graphic a few days before this post was written. http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/13/nielsen-needs-to-work-on-their...
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#8Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. - Hanlon's razor
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#9I prefer Nielsen's version by a wide margin. You can make your graph as perfect as you want, but that doesn't make it better or more useful. After 2 minutes I still can't tell what % HTC WinPhone 7 has...
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#10The original person who noticed this was a writer from 9to5mac and he made his own more accurate graphic a few days before this post was written. http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/13/nielsen-needs-to-work-on-their...
and I was having a hard time telling what % HTC for WinPhone 7 had in the OP.
Again, this version might be proportionally more accurate, but it drastically reduces the amount of information. Nielsen's is the best so far, by far.