I never wanted to see Paul Krugman in a bikini

1-2 Knockout catches him engaging in some Bikini Statistics. Here is the link to Sixteen Years of Intellectual Dishonesty:

To wit, his chart:

• truncated the data stream as to eliminate any context of historical levels, volatility, highs, lows, etc.--without context data are meaningless;
• used an abridged timeseries when the full series tells the opposite story (democrats have a negative average growth in employment, republicans have a positive);
• doesn't adjust for economic policy lag;
• implies that the president alone (or in majority) controls the factors of production, employment, and output without exogenistic factors.

Previous BS post here.

Statistics are like a bikini. What they present is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital--Aaron Levenstein

Apologies, regular readers. A photo would be too disturbing.