Misleading Statistics

Why is this graph misleading?

• Graphed incorrectly

• Does not start at 0

• The break makes it seem like most players only had a few wins

• Not misleading

The graph shows the results of a survey to determine student's favorite pets. Why is this graph misleading?

• The slices are the wrong color

• The slices are not the correct size

• The percents do not add up to 100

• Not misleading

Explain why this graph may be misleading?

• the x-axis does not have equal intervals

• San Fransisco is not a real city

• you cannot have percents in a line graph

• the y-axis does not have equal intervals

Which graph is misleading?

• Neither graph is misleading.

• The graph on the left is misleading because the y-axis does not start at zero.

• The graph on the right is misleading because the difference should be more than what the graph shows.

The graph makes it seem like Cy Young had 3 times as many wins as Jim Galvin. Is this a valid conclusion?

• Yes, because Young only had about 150 more wins

• No, Young did have 3 times as many wins

What is misleading about this graph?
**choose the best answer

• Nothing is misleading about this graph.

• The democrats are too high.

• The y-axis does not start at zero, so it makes the democrats look much higher than the other two parties.

This graph shows the number of children interested in different activities in a class. Why is it misleading?

• uneven spacing of values in the vertical scale

• the graph is not misleading

• vertical scale starts at 8, instead of 0

• none of the above

This graph represents the number of different types of bird species in a zoo. Why is it misleading?

• broken scale

• values on the y axis scale are not uniform (the same)

• uneven spacing of values on the y axis

• none of the above

Which graph is misleading?

• graph 1

• graph 2

• graph 3

• graph 2 and 3

Is the graph misleading or not misleading?

• Misleading

• Not misleading