Critical numeracy
Lesson 3 of 9
Misleading graphs and statistics
Objective. Spot truncated axes, cherry-picked ranges and confused averages.
The key idea
A chart can be technically accurate and still mislead. Always check the axis start, the sample size and which average is quoted.
Practice
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