How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information | 
pickI found this very interesting and will ask a couple of my colleagues to read it too, because I want to know what they think as well! Lots to think about, and other books to read to complement it. (The author recommends Naked Statistics, by Charles Wheeler, which I would recommend too.)
Sace I really want to read this and the only format I could find in the library was audiobook....which I feel defeats the purpose? I just bought a copy. 4y
rabbitprincess @Sace Yeah, I am not sure this would work as an audiobook. What I wish this or another book could cover would be how to make charts accessible through audio (if someone uses a screen reader, for example). 4y
Sace @rabbitprincess Oh... I hadn't even thought about that. Gives me yet another reason to distrust our current obsession with data. (As if I needed more.) 4y
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rabbitprincess @Sace the author discusses our obsession with charts too... they look so final and persuasive, but they are really meant to be used to raise MORE questions and prompt discussion, to find out the why behind the numbers. 4y
Sace @rabbitprincess at my job we talk so much about "data driven instruction" and we've got charts and numbers on walls all over schools....maybe I'm old but it starts to look like teaching to the test, even though we tell ourselves we are prompting discussion. And then there are teachers like me. I teach Spanish. There's no real data for me beyond anectdotal so I start to feel like my subject doesn't count. I really need to read this book! ? 4y
rabbitprincess @Sace I'll be very interested to hear what you think! 4y
Sace @rabbitprincess I received my copy in the mail yesterday. I'm eager to start and I'm very glad I have a physical copy. 4y
rabbitprincess @Sace Yay! I hope you like it 😊 4y
Sace Well the author already has me laughing on page 9. He's also from Spain, the same region my abuelo is from. For some reason that adds to my interest 🤣 4y
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