At the Childcare.co.uk web site there was an article
on June 3, 2019 titled Parents get MORE STRESSED about an UNTIDY HOME than
anything else (including the health of their children and lack of sleep). It
reported results in percent from asking ~4000 members of that community what
their stress triggers were. But the text instead claimed to have asked about
the biggest stress trigger or fear:
“Only 16% of parents stated that their biggest fear was
losing their child in a crowd…”
Results were reported in the eight-slice pie chart shown
above (to which I have added a syringe to indicate overinflation). That is
because that chart is overinflated to a total of 273.6%. The two largest slices
for Untidiness of house (60.8%) and Lack of sleep (55.2%) add to 116% - while
all the slices should only add to 100%. Look at the angle of slightly less than
ninety degrees covered by the dark green slice for Untidiness of house. It really
represents 22.2%, which is what you get when you divide 60.8 % by 2.73. People
had reported on several triggers rather than just their biggest trigger.
Back on December 22, 2013 I had blogged about ‘tis the season
for pies and artistic charts about them, and discussed another pie chart that totaled
to an absurd 271%. This one is even
worse.
Those Childcare results should have instead been reported via
a horizontal bar chart, as is shown above. The syringe image came from the Database
Center for Life Science at Wikimedia Commons.
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