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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.
The term misleading is the number that does not seem in pattern of the others.
"Misleading" means that it can easily make you draw wrong conclusions.
1) By accident or carelessness, 2) on purpose, because somebody wants to mislead others (for example, to influence public opinion in a certain direction).
Statistics themselves are purely factual and can not be biased or misleading. When people start making inferences and interpretations based on the statistics, that is when they can become biased or misleading.