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5. Choosing a Data Display

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Exercise 23 Page 368

Are the increments of the scale equal?

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Consider the given box-and-whisker plot. We will describe how the graph is misleading and how someone might misinterpret it.

Notice that the scale has increments that are not equal. Someone might believe that the temperature has a symmetric distribution. Please note that we are only showing one of the many possible interpretations.