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A misleading graph is when a graph provides only part of the information, or displays comparisons that are not based on all of the information.
For example, a fiscal graph for a city may show a reduction in sales tax rates, but may not indicate that the decline was more than matched by an increase in other taxes (such as a franchise tax) on the same retail operations.
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Could lead to a misleading graph?
Incorrectly plotted points.
How graphs can be misleading?
Graphs can be misleading by having a break in them, not starting at zero, or go up by a certain nuber and then another number completely (ex:up by 1's and then up by 3's). Commercials for companies usually use misleading graphs to enfluence people to buy their porduct. In other words, they lie to get more customers but don't really lie- they just break up the graph to a certain point.
How is a graph misleading?
A graph can be misleading in many ways. The first, and primary, mistake people make is to assume that correlation implies causation. If you see a graph with hours spent volunteering on the x axis and happiness on the y axis, with a positive line drawn on the graph, this could make people assume that volunteering makes you happy. The graph only shows, though, that happiness and volunteering are correlated. It could be that happy people are more likely to volunteer. Another way graphs can be misleading is if the person reading them mentally extrapolates the line. If we have a graph of age (from 20 to 50) and the record running speeds for people of that age, the line would go down, and the person reading might conclude that the younger you get, the quicker you can run. This would mean that babies would be the world's best runners, which is obviously incorrect.A third important way that graphs can be misleading is if the axes don't start their values at 0. For example, if we have a graph of cigarettes smoked on the x axis, and lifespan on the y axis, it would be sensible to start the y axis from 65 or something. Someone looking at this might see the line approaching the x axis and assume that this means 30 cigarettes a day means your lifespan is 0, and that even more can give you a negative lifespan, even though that's impossible.
What is a graph with 3 axis called?
It could either be a graph with 3 horizontal axes; or a graph with one horizontal axis and two vertical ones. This would be for situations where you wish to plot several dependent variables against the same independent one, but the units or scale of the independent variables do not allow you to use the same axis. For example, you may wish to plot the rate of inflation (%) and numbers unemployed (millions) in an economy against the same independent variable, time; or it could be a three dimensional graph. And, by that is meant a genuine 3-d graph with 3 interacting variables rather than a graph that has been given a spurious (and sometimes misleading) third dimension.
What are the five parts of a graph?
the five graph is line graph,bar graph,pictograph,pie graph and coin graph
