Question

A governor has been working to decrease the unemployment rate but it has gone up by 3%. In an effort to undermine the governor, a media outlet releases a bar graph comparing the unemployment rate before and after the governor took office.Which of the following tactics did the media outlet use to create this graph?A. Comparison chartsB. SizingC. Missing informationD. Axis and scaling manipulation

Answer 1

From the given graph, let's determine the tactics which the media outlet used to create the graph.

From the graph, we can see that the scaling of the y-axis was manipulated.

The numbers in the y-axis starts from 8%, while a normal graph is suposed to start from 0%.

Although the graph is correct, but the scaling of the y-axis is misleading. This is because when you look at the graph, you will think there is a major difference between unnemployment before and unemployment after.

Therefore, the tactics the media outlet used to create this graph can be said to be Axis and Scaling manipulation.

Axis and scaling manipulation is a method used in producing misleading graphs to make the data look worse or better than it actually is. This method leads to incorrect conclusions,

ANSWER:

D. Axis and Scaling manipulation.