It is used to trick people into believing that something is fine or not fine. Either for own personal gain or advancement in some field for investment. Its a lie, not true, not accurate, misleading.
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They usually contain a "break" in the graph, which would be on the left side of the graph.
1) By accident or carelessness, 2) on purpose, because somebody wants to mislead others (for example, to influence public opinion in a certain direction).
label the axises
Don't make graphs misleading!As for the answer: different scales, leaving out points, drawing extra lines with no meaning, confusing labels, ...Most graphs you see online are misleading, few are really good.
You can definitely use a table or graph to what your findings. You can use a bar graph for this purpose for example.