Five Ways to Lie with Charts(m.nautil.us)
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Five Ways to Lie with Charts
http://m.nautil.us/issue/19/illusions/five-ways-to-lie-with-charts
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The book "Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data" by Joel Best goes into a lot of this kind of stuff. Some of the examples here (and in that book) seem so obvious once you hear/see them from the right angle, but it can actually be surprisingly easy for otherwise intelligent people to be deceived by data trickery.