NEW ENTRANTS AND THE FINAL TALLY
The election leaflets have been pouring in, and along with them more dodgy bar charts, including a repeat and one with, literally, a new slant on the topic.
First to Labour's Gordon Munro, who, up until now, has had an unblemished record of bar chart scaling.
Sadly, the Labour horse has fallen at the second fence:
Another day, another glossy leaflet delivered with fast food flyers, another dodgy bar chart.
Actually, this is a repeat of Bar chart 2, but we're sticking to the letter of our election pledge and pointing it out for readers.
The latest offering – once again from the Conservatives – does not feature their local candidate Iain McGill, but does have 4 pictures of Ruth Davidson, 2 of Theresa May and 2 of Nicola Sturgeon.
Oh dear. Having pledged we'd take to task all election-connected mangled mathematics that came our way, Spurtle had been hoping we wouldn't have to write anything more on the subject before 8 June.
But no sooner had our first article been published on Monday than a leaflet with yet another dodgy bar chart on it plopped through the letterbox.
An election pledge is an election pledge, so we'll share the offending item with readers here.
With yet another election comes the potential for more barcharts to make maths teachers weep.
Throughout this campaign, Spurtle will highlight dodgy barcharts (and perhaps other obviously dubious statistics) from any party or individual standing locally.
The first such example to come to our attention appeared on Conservative candidate Iain McGill's twitter feed on Sunday 7 May.