TBF Statement
The bar graph comes from an SEC Network tweet, and the pie graph from an unknown IMGUR post.
Today's TBF are a couple examples of visual graphs that are shown only for attractiveness, and not actually aligned with numbers.
The bar graph comes from an SEC Network tweet, and the pie graph from an unknown IMGUR post.
True?: The numbers are accurate.
Intention? ...unknown
False?:
The first bar graph was created with hilarious bar lengths. I think what happened is that they started making bars of appropriate length (the top 3 slowly decrease in length), but the universities with long names didn't fit in the shortened bars, so they lengthened those schools. If you remove the long university names, then the bar lengths do seem to decrease appropriately (sort of). Suffice to say, this is terrible and just leaves the reader confused.
The pie graph is misleading because the creator clearly just wanted to emphasize that USC has the most draft picks, and everyone else is worse. They made the other school proportions far too small, which leads to the reader thinking USC is not only best, but best by a large margin.
Moral of the story: if you choose a graph to use, use it properly with correct dimensions.