<h2>Here's another lesson in Stupid from Fox News:</h2>Not to keep on bashing on Fox News, but their name came up time and time again when searching for misleading graphs from real life. Here’s another, designed to show that after a small drop in unemployment it went up and up in the Obama administration.<br><img src=http://www.statisticshowto.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/unemployment-rate.jpg><br>Note that the value for November (8.6) has not been plotted correctly. It’s placed at the 9.0 position. That’s not the only problem with this graph. It’s been plotted to look life there’s a steep incline when in fact, the overall employment trend was pretty stable at around 9%. -- Zombie THSMB

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