{"id":6636,"date":"2021-03-15T11:42:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T15:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=6636"},"modified":"2021-03-15T11:42:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T15:42:31","slug":"post-for-3-16-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/03\/15\/post-for-3-16-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Post for 3\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/08\/misleading-graphs-18.png\" alt=\"5 Ways Writers Use Misleading Graphs To Manipulate You [INFOGRAPHIC] -  Venngage\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"SVodT2bqnA\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/blog\/misleading-graphs\/\">5 Ways Writers Use Misleading Graphs To Manipulate You<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;5 Ways Writers Use Misleading Graphs To Manipulate You&#8221; &#8212; Venngage\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/blog\/misleading-graphs\/embed\/#?secret=hgDAi2S4WV#?secret=SVodT2bqnA\" data-secret=\"SVodT2bqnA\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This graph is titled &#8220;Most Players Drafted in the First Round&#8221;. It does not specify the range of years, sport, or league to which the data refers. Any of these omissions on their own ruin the usefulness of the graph. Is this referring to football players? Basketball? Baseball? Are the players male or female? The data hasn&#8217;t been assigned a time frame, so I can&#8217;t infer any significant trend. For example, if the data dates back to the 1970s, it could be that USC used to have many players drafted, but hasn&#8217;t in recent years. Another factor to consider is the number of teams in the league, which impacts the number of choices in the first round of a given year&#8217;s draft. For example, the NFL has 32 teams. If Miami has had 60 players drafted in the first round since 2010, that would be 60\/320, or 6 per year. However, if the data reflect the NFL&#8217;s &#8220;Super Bowl Era&#8221;, then the school has only had players chosen with 60\/1,760 picks (actually a little less because the NFL hasn&#8217;t always had 32 teams, but you get the idea). Finally, the intervals on the graph aren&#8217;t specific enough. I know that Ohio State has had between 60 and 80 players drafted in the first round, but even if the graph is drawn exactly to scale, I can&#8217;t precisely tell how many players the bar represents.<\/p>\n<p>The reading illustrates how graphs can be distorted so that they visually appear to convey data differently than it might sound when read aloud. This reminds me of when journalists will take a quote out of context and omit important information that clarifies a speaker&#8217;s point. In this day and age, we are so accustomed to taking in information in tiny chunks (tweets, notifications, short videos). The less information is present, the easier it is to manipulate an audience. We often unknowingly choose convenience and easily processed bits of data in favor of seeing the complete picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Ways Writers Use Misleading Graphs To Manipulate You This graph is titled &#8220;Most Players Drafted in the First Round&#8221;. It does not specify the range of years, sport, or league to which the data refers. Any of these omissions on their own ruin the usefulness of the graph. Is this referring to football players? 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