Misleading Graphs

This is the first post in a new blog designed to help you recognize misleading and deceptive graphs as well as become familiar with some common graphical mistakes. How many problems can you identify in this company valuation visual? I'll return to the graph after I briefly introduce myself. I'm Naomi [...]

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13 Graphs That Are Clearly Lying

The numbers don't lie, but humans do. H/T Data Is Ugly on Reddit.

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Basic Statistics

Elementary Statistics Cheat Sheet

Mean Statistics

Misleading Graphs

Descriptive Statistics

statistics: how statistics can be misleading

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Melbournes Herald Sun and their deliberate misleading graphs.

3423 views on Imgur: The magic of the Internet

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Calling Bullshit: Misleading Axes

Data graphics tell stories, but these stories can be misleading. We look at how the ranges shown on axes can be misleading, and explore the classic issue of when the y-axis of a graph needs to include zero.

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Christian Louboutin Pumps

Misleading Graphs

STATS: Found this example of a misleading graph in a recent InStyle magazine

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Picture Graphs 3rd Grade

Misleading Graphs

Function Graphs

Math Functions Graphs

Picture Graphs 3rd Grade

What is wrong with this picture? It's a misleading graph!!!!!

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Opera Mini user growth. An excellent example of misleading graphs.

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Misleading Graphs

Project Based Learning Math

Problem Solving Activities

Third Grade Science

Interactive Lessons

Misleading Graphs: Figures Not Drawn to Scale

The representation of numbers in graphs should be proportional to the numbers themselves. Otherwise, they mislead or deceive. Examples of misleading graphs not drawn to scale and a figure with unevenly spaced tick marks are shown.

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the_economist_misleading_graph

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Pinterest

Misleading graphs

The numbers don't lie, but humans do. H/T Data Is Ugly on Reddit.

Figure E.

3423 views on Imgur: The magic of the Internet

Data graphics tell stories, but these stories can be misleading. We look at how the ranges shown on axes can be misleading, and explore the classic issue of when the y-axis of a graph needs to include zero.

STATS: Found this example of a misleading graph in a recent InStyle magazine

What is wrong with this picture? It's a misleading graph!!!!!

Opera Mini user growth. An excellent example of misleading graphs.

The representation of numbers in graphs should be proportional to the numbers themselves. Otherwise, they mislead or deceive. Examples of misleading graphs not drawn to scale and a figure with unevenly spaced tick marks are shown.

the_economist_misleading_graph

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