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Nine ways a chart lies
A catalogue of the specific distortions that appear in real business charts, most of them accidental, all of them fixable in under a minute.
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A catalogue of the specific distortions that appear in real business charts, most of them accidental, all of them fixable in under a minute.
Almost every number a business cares about is right-skewed, and almost every business reports it as a mean. Here is what that does, why nobody notices, and what to publish instead.