Five Ways to Lie with Charts

This is a cute article about ways that people can lie with charts: (1) Puzzling perspective, (2) Swindling shapes, (3) Trendsetters are tricksters (implying a false correlation), (4) Hiding in plain sight, and (5) Changing the scale of the axis.

http://nautil.us/issue/19/illusions/five-ways-to-lie-with-charts

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by John Quintanilla on May 22, 2015  •  Permalink
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Posted by John Quintanilla on May 22, 2015

https://meangreenmath.com/2015/05/22/five-ways-to-lie-with-charts/

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