Question

Persuasive artists can create misleading graph impressions with true facts. Give two examples of how this can be done.

Answer 1

(1)


In this picture, if we look at the heights of the bars in the bar graph on the right, we may be led to believe that The Times achieve double the full-price sales as compared to Daily Telegraph. But if we look closely, The Times (485720 sales) only has achieved around 10% more sales than the Daily Telegraph (446954 copies).

(2)


Judging the bars of this bar graph, we may be led to believe that the number of people receiving federal welfare may be increasing by leaps and bounds, that is, rapidly. But if we look closely at the y-axis of this graph, we will see that over the no. of people receiving federal welfare has increased at a modest rate.