How Charts Lie
How Charts Lie We've all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don't understand what we're looking at? We associate charts with science and reason; the flashy visuals are…
Specifikacia How Charts Lie
How Charts Lie
We've all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don't understand what we're looking at? We associate charts with science and reason; the flashy visuals are both appealing and persuasive. Social media has made charts, infographics, and diagrams ubiquitous--and easier to share than ever.
In short, good charts make us smarter--if we know how to read them.However, they can also lead us astray. Pie charts, maps, bar and line graphs, and scatter plots (to name a few) can better inform us, revealing patterns and trends hidden behind the numbers we encounter in our lives. Charts lie in a variety of ways--displaying incomplete or inaccurate data, suggesting misleading patterns, and concealing uncertainty--or are frequently misunderstood, such as the confusing cone of uncertainty maps shown on TV every hurricane season.
To make matters worse, many of us are
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