American Pharoah for SI Sportsman of the Year

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Originally Posted by Dunbar

I'm sure your brother will come to the same conclusion I did. The data shown in the the male/female graph totally misrepresents the overall data. Likewise, but less glaringly so, the data in the "by age" graph also misrepresents the overall data.

Look at it again--don't you agree that the male/female graph seems to show that KC had more votes than AP?

I don't; what I took from it was that AP's win was dependent on women voting for him in much larger numbers, percentage-wise than men did. That said, graphs can be notoriously poorly designed, you're right about that. There was one recently used on FOXNews that was cited as a textbook example of a graph, while not exactly contradicting the information, was drawn as to lead to an incorrect conclusion about it. It was pretty funny to look at.

The other thing is that stood out to me with the SI stuff is that it lists more women than men voting, which, not to generalize, but I can't help but find unlikely for a sports magazine. So I'm curious if they took a random sample of all voters, or if more women voters than men were willing to identify themselves by gender when voting (though, again, I can't remember if I was asked to categorize myself).