Thanks to nancy689 for alerting me to this. Lisa Summers last night: I’ve got a couple of graphs to show where we are in Scotland. The first one is hospital deaths across the four nations and you can see that while it is still rising it’s not as steeply as it was a couple of weeks ago. I don’t know where this graph comes from but, to be kind, it’s a bit sophisticated for a TV news broadcast and thus misleading. Summers doesn’t explain the left-hand axis with its logarithmic scale and, crucially, leaves it to misrepresent the differences in … Continue reading Reporting Scotland health correspondent uses misleading graph to obscure lower death rate in Scotland