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Graphical Misrepresentation In today's high information/data consuming society use of statistics is wide spread. Especially, today's electronic and print media very frequently invoke statistics to create attention grabbing news items. But unfortunately, such frequent use of statistics, have led to misuse of statistics. Nothing accentuates the distortion of data than a visual display of data. Use of graphical representation of statistics produces powerful messages. But it is also leaves the door wide open to distort and manipulate graphs to supporting a particular point or portrays wrong interpretation of the data. In today's business community not a day passes without with a meeting with graphs and other visual aid of data. With powerful graphical tools in common use, it becomes very easy for anyone to produce visual presentation of data, again this opens the door for much abuse. Our class leadership presentation will focus what is graphical misrepresentation, how to detect...

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