The science is settled: MSNBC has its own 'hockey stick' graph now and it's tough to refute

Have you noticed how often President Trump has been tweeting about Robert Mueller lately? You haven’t? Don’t worry — the graphics pros at MSNBC have you covered.

Does this really warrant a graph? pic.twitter.com/O9H6mG8nIj

— Steven Strogatz (@stevenstrogatz) March 19, 2018

We’d say yes. If you look closely, you can see the X-axis stretches all the way from 0 to 3. So that would be three times. And the red line really shows how sudden the uptick has been. Fascinating stuff, really.

OMG I have so many questions about this graph, namely how did it get approved for TV pic.twitter.com/3JQ5SCJ8xF

— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) March 19, 2018

If you found yourself enlightened by that zinger of a graph, check these out:

https://twitter.com/Moj_kobe/status/975865231061610497

Apologies in advance for any spit-takes after reading this next one:

Shocking Statistics pic.twitter.com/UJFD4bcvKv

— matt’s idea shop (@MattsIdeaShop) March 19, 2018