Misleading Diagrams
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6th Grade
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Yuhui Toh
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Misleading Diagrams
Can you really believe what you see?
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Why is this diagram misleading?
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Multiple Choice
Why is this diagram misleading?
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Why is this diagram misleading?
The animals are of different sizes. Thus, it might give readers the impression that the number of elephants is equivalent to the number of flamingos as the rows are of the same length.
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Why is this diagram misleading?
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What can you say about the data?
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Multiple Choice
What can you say about the data?
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What can you say about the data?
The scale of the axis does not start from zero. Thus, it gives readers the impression that the monthly sales of APL is 4 times that of NOK.
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Did Mobile App A or Mobile App B have a greater increase in the number of active users?
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Poll
Did Mobile App A or Mobile App B have a greater increase in the number of active users?
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Mobile App A!
While the increment is only 22%, the original users of mobile app A was already significantly more than that of mobile app B.
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The advertisement claims that the toothpaste brightens your teeth in a short amount of time.
Explain why their claim might be false based on this diagram.
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Multiple Select
Explain why their claim might be false based on this diagram.
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Explain why their claim might be false based on this diagram.
- The vertical axis does not start from zero -> exaggerates the increment.
- 'Brightness of teeth' is not a common scientific unit of measurement -> cannot evaluate improvement.
- Time axis has no scale -> cannot determine if time is short.
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