Exercise 3/How to Lie with Statistics/Booker Evans

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In this exercise we manipulated statistics by altering chart settings in order to make the data lie for our purposes. In the first chart we show the data in its original range. It looks like there is a large positive correlation between the percentage and the year because as each year increases by 10 the percentage also goes up. When we change the range on the y axis for example if we make the minimum 0 and the maximum 800 the correlation between x and y looks alot less significant. If I wanted to make it seem like the percent had changed over timeĀ I would use the first graph. If I wanted to prove the opposite than I would use the second graph.