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World 6 · Who Asked? Sampling and Graphs That Lie · 14 min · PRO

The axis trick

Truncated axes and distorted areas

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  • The wrong crowd
  • 2.4 million answers and still wrong
  • How sure can a poll be?
  • Reading charts like a detective
  • Luck looks lumpy
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