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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.

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