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A lesson in how to lie with graphs in this article. The percentage supposedly represented by the boxes is indicated using the width of the box, but the human eye instinctively uses the area. That's how you can make 30% look 4 times larger than 15%, through the cunning manipulation of square laws.

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Yeah - whenever I see things like this, I make the assumption that they are deliberately trying to deceive - there's no way you can accidentally design a graph like that

CityLab is a mission driven organization that is obviously for city living based on their recent articles. Fortunately when they manipulate the presentation of data the way they do it becomes obvious to those in the know what they are up to.

However, the data contained in this article provides evidence of what the planning community is constantly trying to overcome: How do we keep the mid-age and retirement individuals from leaving the city?

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