I must have missed this post on Graphic Sociology over the holidays. Linking to a post by Philip Cohen on the Family Inequality blog, Graphic Sociology highlights why infographics can be misleading when we don’t give more data. Cohen does an excellent job challenging Wilcox’s assertion that the recession has been good for marriage rates by pulling back and showing the divorce rate over the last few decades. In that light, divorces have been trending downward for awhile and have nothing to do with the Great Recession.
Tags: data, divorce, economics, families, infographics, philip cohen, sociology
