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  • Tone is nearly always a bullshit argument used to dismiss the content of what’s said without addressing it.

    Good communicators don’t worry about it too much because there are lots of reasons someone can take a certain tone - for example if they’re tired or stressed! So they just make sure they understand what the person is conveying without worrying about how it’s conveyed.

    Someone who focuses much on tone is likely a poor communicator themselves, or frequently just trying to be manipulative.










  • Someone fucked these up badly and there’s no way to tell from this how.

    Are the numbers swapped between candidates but the sizes correct? Are the sizes swapped between candidates and the numbers correct?

    As an aside, this is why serious data people don’t use pie charts. They’re terrible for lots of reasons, one being it’s very hard to compare areas instead of lengths, like a bar chart, as demonstrated by how many people didn’t notice these were so bad at first.

    If you see data presented in a pie chart you should immediately be suspicious that it’s dishonest or incompetent.

    None of that is to take away that voting for third parties this election is a terrible move - just saying this chart is useless.