numberwang said:
Up from 18100 on election day to 27500 now, a 53% increase in a little over three years. Money to spend on smaller consumer items is is here.
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There's a specific reason you chose to show the 5 year graph, right? Now I'm not big into politics or economics, but I was curious if you were using some statistical wizardry or genuinely being objective and unbiased. When I saw the graph, I was like "damn, I didn't know our country was doing *that* good under Trump". Y'know what I mean? But I live in a largely democratic state (Illinois), and it's rare that I hear anything positive about Trump. I voted for him myself, but since it's so commonplace to mock him in my area, I usually partake in the mockery so as to fit in.
We had a business trip to Alabama twice in recent months, and one of the things that stuck out to me was that people in Alabama seem to not think the same way of Trump. It's difficult to put into words, but I suppose that it helped for me to understand how he got elected in the first place. Sure, I voted for him, but based on how there are almost zero people voicing positive opinions about him where I live, I couldn't comprehend his victory.
Back to your graph. Like I said before, I'm not interested in politics, so I'm not trying to incite further political debate. But the point I'm trying to make is not political; it's that your graph is misleading in the context of what you are trying to say.
If you change the graph to show the full "max" range, you can see that the DOW Jones has almost always been trending upwards. Your graph only goes down to ~16k, but from looking at the data, it was at ~8.5k when Obama was elected. And right before that time it was trending down hard, and then took a steep rise after he took office. It just bugs me a bit that the evidence you are using almost seems like it could be the very same evidence used for the opposition.
I guess it's possible you just didn't know this, and never bothered to check the max range. In that case you are not guilty of being intentionally misleading, but you are still kind of wrong. But I think you did know.
(Sorry for the political post; not trying to upset anyone.)
