PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Pareto Chart, Pie Chart, Misleading Graph
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Common aspects of misleading graphs: the false face validity lie. Whether the method used to collect data seems to represent exactly what it says it represents. Graph may say its measuring aggression, when it reality it measured shouting: the biased scale lie. Grading students on excellent good fair poor , teachers seem to give more positive responses as it is geared towards more positive with only one negative choice: the sneaky sample lie. People in a study are preselected so the data turns a certain way: the extrapolation lie. Assumes knowledge of information outside the study (don"t assume a pattern in your data will continue: the inaccurate values lie. Telling the truth in one part of the data, yet visually distorting it in another place: the outright lie. A graph that depicts the relation between two scale variables. Values of the iv and the dv are marked along the x and y axis.
