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This comes from a New York Times story this morning [title](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/27/business/economy/jobs-election-county.html). Curiously, this page doesn't show up well in my web browser, the images are from the mobile app (on an iPad).

Here is the "headline" (what appeared in the app that intrigued me):
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What caught my eye (from a visualization perspective) was how the irregular nature of counties made it difficult for me to really see what was going on.
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A cautionary tale... This is from one of my own (rejected) papers. My student (Yeping) made this figure, but I take responsibility for not catching the problem. Two reviewers explicitly called out the problem in this critique, it both led them to the wrong conclusion about our work, and made them think we were intentionally trying to mislead them...

**Key Lesson (principle)**: Don't make the wrong thing easy to see.

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