A new study suggests that the format in which graphs are presented may be biasing people into being too optimistic or pessimistic about the trends the graphs display. Academics found that when people ...

From the bar graph above, the main points are: Each bar has its own label on the horizontal axis There is a scale on the vertical axis The bars are of equal width ...

As we saw in the example, it is important to be able to look at a graph and figure out if its data is presented in a clear way. Graph 1 presents data in a way that makes it look like there was an ...