Deceiving with Statistics

I really enjoyed a recent Math With Bad Drawings post on how descriptive statistics can be used to deceive. For example:

See the rest of the post for similar picture for mean, median, mode, and variance (equivalent to standard deviation); I’ll be using these in my future statistics classes.

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by John Quintanilla on October 20, 2016  •  Permalink
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Posted by John Quintanilla on October 20, 2016

https://meangreenmath.com/2016/10/20/deceiving-with-statistics/

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