<div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Yes, all,</span></span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Georgia has been leading the disinformation campaign for a while now. It's been disturbing to watch from here in Savannah, but it reached the point in April whereby the state data could no longer be trusted for accuracy. Tweet of mine, from April 21:<br></span></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px;"><div style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div lang="en" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.3125; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; position: relative; min-width: 0px;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px">---</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><br></span></span></div><div lang="en" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.3125; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; position: relative; min-width: 0px;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px">And the Georgia Department of Health has been changing it's narrative daily with the way it repurposes the data. In half their confirmed cases they don't even know the race or ethnicity, so if you're not white, you don't know you have higher chances of falling prey to the virus.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><br></span></span></div><div lang="en" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.3125; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; position: relative; min-width: 0px;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px">---</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><br></span></span></div><div lang="en" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.3125; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; position: relative; min-width: 0px;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Was watching the GA Dept of Health site daily, early on, in March, and became astonished at the shifts it was taking, but then in April just abandoned it completely, as it fails in all areas for discernible accuracy, and am not looking for wrong or misguiding numbers during a pandemic. Life is business a usual in Georgia with steady traffic and very little visible change in behavior.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><br></span></span></div><div lang="en" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.3125; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; position: relative; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><br></span></span></div><div lang="en" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.3125; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; position: relative; min-width: 0px;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Best,</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><br></span></span></div><div lang="en" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.3125; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; position: relative; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><br></span></span></div><div lang="en" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.3125; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; position: relative; min-width: 0px;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Steve </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><br></span></span></div><div lang="en" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.3125; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; position: relative; min-width: 0px;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px">#StayHome</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><br></span></span></div><div lang="en" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.3125; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; position: relative; min-width: 0px;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px">-----</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><br></span></span></div><div lang="en" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.3125; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; position: relative; min-width: 0px;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Steven John Thompson, PhD</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><br></span></span></div><div lang="en" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.3125; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; position: relative; min-width: 0px;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px">Professor, Communication, Journalism, and Speech</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><br></span></span></div><div lang="en" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.3125; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; position: relative; min-width: 0px;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px">University of Maryland Global Campus</span></span></span></span><br></div><div lang="en" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.3125; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; position: relative; min-width: 0px;"><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br></div><div> On Wednesday, May 20, 2020 2:33 PM, Russell Willerton <russell.willerton@gmail.com> wrote:<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"><div dir="auto"><div>What Kathy said.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Here's some commentary from Alberto Cairo that is relevant as well.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2020/05/about-that-weird-georgia-chart.html?m=1">http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2020/05/about-that-weird-georgia-chart.html?m=1</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards, Russell<br></div><div dir="auto">Department of Writing and Linguistics<br></div><div dir="auto">Georgia Southern University<br></div></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, May 20, 2020, 1:58 PM Northcut, Kathryn <<a href="mailto:northcut@mst.edu">northcut@mst.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div>And thousands of Tech Com alumni and students of alumni across the planet thought of you when we read that article!  <br></div><div><br></div><div>Good to hear from you.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Kathy<br></div><div> <br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div> <br></div><div> <br></div></div><div><span></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kathryn Northcut, PhD<br></div><div> Interim Vice Provost<br></div><div> Academic Support<br></div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><div> 105 Norwood<br></div><div> (573) 341-4390<br></div><div> <a href="mailto:northcut@mst.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">northcut@mst.edu</a> <a href="http://academicsupport.mst.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">academicsupport.mst.edu</a><br></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 20, 2020, at 12:36 PM, Dragga, Sam <<a href="mailto:Sam.Dragga@ttu.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Sam.Dragga@ttu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">A striking example of a misleading column graph is a short-lived item from the Georgia Department of Public Health listing COVID-19 cases in five counties across a 15-day period.  The days were not displayed in chronological
 order from left to right and the five counties were in different orders on different days: the two errors created the impression that the number of cases was declining dramatically, possibly leading officials and citizens to make unsafe/unwise choices.<u></u></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">The misleading graph from May 10 has been deleted, but you’ll find a copy of it and the new corrected version at<u></u></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://www.gpbnews.org/post/georgia-s-gaffe-prone-covid-19-dashboard-useful-if-you-know-where-look" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.gpbnews.org/post/georgia-s-gaffe-prone-covid-19-dashboard-useful-if-you-know-where-look</a><u></u></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Sam<u></u></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">Sam Dragga<u></u></span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">Professor Emeritus, Texas Tech University<u></u></span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">Editor,<span> </span><i>Technical Communication</i><u></u></span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt"><a href="mailto:sam.dragga@ttu.edu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">sam.dragga@ttu.edu</a><u></u></span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">1-806-543-6099<u></u></span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u><br></div></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12px">_______________________________________________</span></span><br></div><div> <span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12px">ATTW-L
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