1. Information Representation and Visual HCI
... even in the text that the fall is dramatic or slight. The viewer's perception of the graph is simply that wages have fallen due to inflation. The viewer's perception is further baffled as the two graphs are displaced from each other and make it more difficult for the viewer to compare ... the slopes of lines. This brings me to the lie factor. The lie factor calculates the misrepresentation of data. Without knowing the units it is difficult to ... means that the data has been distorted and will involve overstating, his is not uncommon. Here is a reworked graph to show the actual rate of ...
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