misleading graphs

Bad graphs

I collect misleading graphs. Here’s an excellent one I saw today. What’s wrong with it? There’s more than the obvious. How would you regraph it? Here’s some other weird ones. Although maybe it’s wrong to call these graphs These are ‘infographics’ not graphs. Heathenous maths person… 😉 — TheProvokedPedagogue (@Provokedpedagog) October 9, 2017

I was shown this corker of a graph recently. The scales there are wonderfully deceptive. I love a good misleading graph. They’re really good for generating discussion, especially when you delve into the difference between a graph merely being wrongly created and a graph that’s been deliberately manipulated to be misleading, as this one has.… Read More »