Gather a set of data. Choose a small sample, between 10 and 20 pieces of data, and a simple value to measure, such as the ages of visitors in a park, or the number of text messages each person in your family receives in one day.
Choose a display for your data, such as a frequency table, line plot, histogram, or bar graph. Display your data in your chosen format in a way that is misleading. You may use inconsistent (unequal) intervals, an uneven scale, and so on.
Use your display to draw a misleading inference about the data.
Display your data in the same format, this time making sure that it is not misleading.
Use this display to explain how your first display was misleading.
Use a data measure, such as mean, median, mode, or range, to draw a misleading inference about your data. Explain why the measure is misleading.
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Im going to do a bar graph. I don't get the data thing...
The data is the raw numbers. You could ask 15 people in a park their ages. Your data is the 15 ages.
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