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The Art of Deception: Charts That Lie

This four-page lesson introduces chart manipulation, bias, scale changes, and cherry-picking through examples and retrieval-practice questions.

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This four-page lesson introduces chart manipulation, bias, scale changes, and cherry-picking through examples and retrieval-practice questions. Students compare bar and pie charts while evaluating how visual choices influence interpretation and persuasive arguments.

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What you’ll teach

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  • Students will identify misleading data visualizations.
  • Students will explain how chart scales can distort comparisons.
  • Students will recognize cherry-picking and other forms of visual bias.
  • Students will compare chart types representing the same dataset.