You can do better, WSJ
T his morning I was perusing my new online subscription to the Wall Street Journal and I came across an article entitled, " Women Own This Summer. The Economy Proves It. " The article outlines the impact of the combination of Barbie , Taylor and Beyonc é on the economy of the country. I'll leave you to read that at your leisure. What bothered me about this article was not the premise or the writing, but was something we see frequently in much less reputable print, video and other online media: the use of misleading graphs to misrepresent data. After a picture of several women in their pink Barbie movie attire, a graph is presented with the long title "Labor force participation rate for women with children under six, annual average" (see image at right). The graph shows that the percentage of such women was roughly 64.5% in 2012 and has increased to almost 68% in 2022. My complaint about this graph is th...