MISLEADING DIAGRAMS.

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MISLEADING DIAGRAMS

What is wrong with these diagrams? Can you spot why they are misleading?

What is wrong with this chart?

Lets have a look at what the chart looks like when the scale is correct. What differences can you see? How was the first chart misleading?

This graph shows sales figures in each quarter. Sales seem to increase very rapidly and then slow down… But what is really happening?

Lets have a look at what the chart looks like when the scale is correct. What differences can you see? How was the first chart misleading?

Are sales of singles really decreasing?

Lets have a look at what the chart looks like when the bars are 2-D Lets have a look at what the chart looks like when the bars are 2-D. What differences can you see? How was the first chart misleading?

What is going on here? Why is this chart misleading?

Lets have a look at what the chart looks like when the pictures are the same size. What differences can you see? How was the first chart misleading?