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Continent viewing session. The results are displayed in the
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bar graph. Explain how this graph is misleading.
North America Asia
White 27% 45%
Gray 21% 13% 30
Black 20% 18%
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Blue 10% 5% 25
Silver 10% 7% Percent
Color
Red 8% 4% 20
Brown 2% 3%
Green 1% 2% 15
Yellow 0.5% 2%
3 to 4 5 to 6 7 to 9 10 or There
Other 0.5% 1% more is no
“too many”

(a) Make a side-by-side bar graph to compare the distributions Number of episodes
of most popular car color in North America and Asia.

(b) Describe similarities and differences between the two 14. Support the court? A news network reported the results of
distributions. a survey about a controversial court decision. The network
initially posted on its website a bar graph of the data simi-
Misleading Graphs lar to the one shown here. Explain how this graph is mis-
11. Who dislikes shopping? Harris Interactive asked leading. ( Note: When notified about the misleading nature
pg 15 adults from several countries if they like or dislike shop- of its graph, the network posted a corrected version.)
ping for clothes. The following pictograph displays the
percentage of adults in the United States, Germany, 63
and Spain who said that they dislike shopping for 62
clothes. Explain how this graph is misleading. 24 61
60
30 Percentage who agree 59
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Percent 20 57
56
10
0 55
United States Germany Spain 54
Country 53
Democrats Republicans Independents
12. Social media The Pew Research Center surveyed a ran- 15. Lotteries and education A Gallup Poll asked respon-
dom sample of U.S. teens and adults about their use of dents about their highest level of education and
social media. The following pictograph displays the per- whether they had bought a state lottery ticket in the
centage of people in various age groups who report using last 12 months. Here is a bar graph of the data:
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social media. Explain how this graph is misleading.
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Age Breakdown (of Social Media Users)
Percentage buying lottery ticket 30
13–18 19–29 30–49 50– 64 65+ 50

89% 40

81% 78%
60%
43% 20

13. Binge-watching Do you “binge-watch” television series 10 0
by viewing multiple episodes of a series at one sitting? High school Technical College degree Postgraduate
A survey of 800 people who binge-watch were asked diploma or less degree or some education
how many episodes is too many to watch in one college
Amount of education

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