The DP illustrates a 30% drop in UVa’s endowment with a graph that gets 58% smaller. Not a lot of statisticians go into the news biz, I guess. #
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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This is a strangely common mistake in newspapers. Starting the y-axis of a bar graph at any number other than 0 is another frequent and misleading error.
At least they didn’t make it even worse and use spheres.
All things equal (and they never are) that can’t have been unexpected. The market was down about 38%, so UVa’s decline was less than the market. Which considering the long term outlook seems like we had decent mangers.
Perhaps the graphics people were to busy looking for moving boxes?
I don’t know which is geekier, Waldo’s original post or me arriving home and pulling out my millimeter ruler to measure the circles in the newspaper to check his figures. (I get a decrease of 57% from the area of circle 1 to circle 3, based on the dead-tree edition.)