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What are two ways a pie chart can be misrepresented?

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Pie charts are very different from other types of charts/graphs. They do not use axes to plot points. There are two ways pie charts can be misrepresented and it is important to be aware of this ;

1. Leaving out one or more of the parts of the whole.

2. Not defining what the whole stands for.

If a small part of the whole is left out, it will increase the percent values of the other parts displayed. If we do not define a whole, then we have no idea what these parts represent.


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