Lying with Maps

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MAP 1

MAP 2

In these 2 maps, I show how the median household income in Connecticut. If you look at map 1, which is the lying map, you can be easily be tricked to think Connecticut has a very high median household income and this shows there isn’t a lot of poverty in Connecticut. Why is this? Because there is a majority of blue in the map that represents this high median household income. This color range from 60,000 to 300,000 dollars percent of the median household income, which put the majority of the population that between the 60,000 to 300,000 dollars. However, in the 2nd map, the range is more accurate and reasonable which shows there are areas that have a very low median income and a variety of other different incomes.