PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Misleading Graph, Line Graph, Scatter Plot
7 Jun 2013
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Was from ithaca time, why does college cost so much. 1: lie 1: the graph treats unequal scaled as if they were equal. This lie uses identical distances to represent very different time frames: lie 2: the graph unites incompatible measures. This lie compares an ordinal measure to a scale measure: lie 3: the graph uses misleading starting points. Most common ways to mislead viewers with graphic tricks: the false face validity lie. False validity refers to whether the method used to collect data seems (on the face of it) to represent what it says it represents. False face validity is when the method seems to represent what it says, but when you dig a little deeper, it does not: the biased scale lie. Scatterplot: a graph that depicts the relation between two scale variables. Linear relation: between variables means that the relation between variables is best described by a straight line.
