{"id":294,"date":"2022-06-03T12:44:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T16:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/?p=294"},"modified":"2022-06-03T13:06:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T17:06:40","slug":"misleading-graph-on-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/2022\/06\/03\/misleading-graph-on-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Misleading Graph on Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"893\" src=\"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-12.51.48-PM-1024x893.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-12.51.48-PM-980x854.png 980w, https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-12.51.48-PM-480x418.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption>This graph shows the number of sales for two products. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This graph is misleading since the y-axis does not start at zero. Oftentimes, the human brain is calibrated to start at zero, but the y-axis on this graph doesn&#8217;t start at zero making this visualization confusing to comprehend. The scale makes it look like Product 2 is completely failing, but in reality, the difference between the two isn&#8217;t as drastic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"895\" src=\"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-1.15.49-PM-1024x895.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-1.15.49-PM-980x857.png 980w, https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-1.15.49-PM-480x420.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This graph is misleading since the y-axis does not start at zero. Oftentimes, the human brain is calibrated to start at zero, but the y-axis on this graph doesn&#8217;t start at zero making this visualization confusing to comprehend. The scale makes it look like Product 2 is completely failing, but in reality, the difference between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dataviz22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}