How To Lie with Statistics - Learn How to Create Misleading Bar Charts... Protect Yourself From LIARS That Use This Simple Trick to FOOL YOU!

Bar charts that use a RESIZED PHOTOGRAPH instead of a BAR Automatically give the viewer an exaggerated idea... This gives the illusion that a increase of Two times in the Data is displayed as a Four times increase in AREA. VISUALLY FOOLING THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND... This technique was used a lot by the newspaper USA TODAY.

Example of a Distorted Chart Using a
Re-Sized Photo instead of bars in a bar chart.

 It's an Illusion. A Magic trick. The viewer automatically assumes that the change in data over time is much more significant that actual reality.

Normal, Accurate Bar Chart.

I learned this from Dr Kim of Humboldt State University. Thanks! Dr. Kim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war

https://www.meta-chart.com/share/american-fatalities-since-9112001

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another trick is...

Only show a portion of the bar chart. Some stock charts only show the top 10% of a graph. That exaggerates statistical noise into something a viewer feels compelled to notice.

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"Do the Math" a silly story... by Greg Vanderlaan

During the early 1970's a gentleman and his wife were working in Palo Alto, California and he discovered the key to enlightenment. He published it as a book and became a leader of a religious group very popular with the high tech crowd surrounding Apple and HP. To put it briefly, the key is 01101011001110110100010001... and it went on like that for a hundred pages finally ending with the amazing conclusion that astonished the world and allowed the couple to earn a million dollars from royalties... 11010011100001110101100110.

A few years passed and the wife made a public statement: "While my husband is a fine fellow and a wonderful father to our children, I sadly must inform you that he is almost entirely wrong about the key to enlightenment. I have been doing the math and can state that there is a missing part... it is:10010100110001001011101110... and it went on like that for a hundred pages finally ending with the amazing conclusion that astonished the world and allowed the couple to earn another million dollars from royalties... 00101100011110001010011001.

And the people of the world did the math... and she was right... while each of the strings of zeros and ones by themselves showed part of the key to true enlightenment, if you add the two numbers together, they equal:1111111111111111111111111.... and it goes on for a hundred pages finally ending as you would expect... 111111111111111111111111111.

And THAT is how you "become one" with the universe. 

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