#bad graphs

[skyleighhex]

Mathblr come through: I need your favorite terrible graphs that horribly misrepresent data? Please? Bonus points if they will make a classroom full of students laugh.

[futurebird]

To be fair, I've been "using pragerU in the classroom for years" … for STEM even.

I have a folder of "Terrible graphs" that I use for discussions for stats students, they make so many horrible graphs I had to only pick the most interesting examples so that there is more variety.

(And I've been using them less since the students say it's too easy to spot that flaws. It's more fun to dissect a bad graph that made it into a major newspaper.)

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[adventuresinsocialpolicy]

Mistakes, we’ve drawn a few

Learning from our errors in data visualisation

More bad charts! This time with good explanations of why, and how to fix them, from a data journalist at The Economist.

[thefloralmenace]

I used to send this graph to my high school stats teacher as a form of harassment.

[queerscout]

I have been so successful in imparting my hatred of bad graphs to my students that when I passed out some bad graphs to critique and correct I was met with cries of distress and questions of “this was actually published?” and “who thought this was a good idea?”

[everythingisahoax]

Ebay doesn’t understand how bar graphs work.

[badphotoshopgraphs-blog]

seriously

actually don’t send nudes my wife looks at this sometimes