Friday 11 April 2014

Oh dear, SNP/#YesScot have been caught fibbing again!

Oh dear, SNP/#YesScot have been caught fibbing again!

SNP/YesScotland published a Panelbase poll yesterday. Along with the results this was also tweeted:

Now anyone who bothered to go to school will spot that there are no data points on the plot, but there are wobbly trend lines. Let's look at the actual data:



Note that on the second plot #bettertogether have a 10 point lead, whereas on the first one this is reduced to 5%. Lets add the SNP/#YesScot trend lines in bold for fun:


No doubt this was a genuine error or perhaps the SNP/YesScotland  plot only refers to Panelbase data. After all, it tends to flatter them a little. This shows Panelbase only data with the SNP/#YesScot trend lines shown in bold.


So no matter how we look at it, SNP/#YesScot have been trying to fool the people of Scotland.

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