Clever marketers can use visual statistics to mislead their target populations. Explore these visual misrepresentations with a video lesson from a larger statistics playlist. The lesson instructor explains visual representations of both categorical and noncategorical data while focusing on these explaining misleading strategies.

Concepts

data analysis, statistics, frequency tables, categorical data, pie charts

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Ask pupils to bring in samples of visual data from newspapers or magazines to analyze
• Have pupils create two visual representations of the same data, one biased and one non-biased

Classroom Considerations

• Requires a strong understanding of organizing data in a table

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Uses animations to provide clarity to examples
• Includes several different visual examples of biased and non-biased information

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.6.2 SL.7.2 SL.8.2 SL.9-10.2 SL.11-12.2 HSS-ID.B.5 RST.6-8.7 RST.9-10.7 RST.11-12.7