"A student found a handbag with €14,000 and handed it over to police. The owner is happy. We say excellent and thank you," it said.The family, who live in a refugee centre, are likely to receive a reward for their honesty, say German media
Want to spin your data? Five Ways to Lie with Charts - 0 views
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In the right (or wrong) hands, bar graphs and pie charts can become powerful agents of deception, tricking you into inferring trends that don’t exist, mistaking less for more, and missing alarming facts. The best measure of a chart’s honesty is the amount of time it takes to interpret it, says Massachusetts Institute of Technology perceptual scientist Ruth Rosenholtz: “A bad chart requires more cognitive processes and more reasoning about what you’ve seen.”
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