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These examples can be used to mislead and the purpose is to show to users how it can be done so the next time users sees truncated bar chart on TV, maybe they will think more carefuly before making judgment about visually represented data.

I cannot support it with data nor did I claim they are more often on purpose. Sometimes it is just a bad design and different programmes have different default settings for labels and axis.

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There are number of common practices which are used to mislead on purpose. The point is to show main tricks they use and to educate users to critically think about data thats presented to them.

If I travel to another country, I would like to know about common tourist scams, so if for example someone wants to sell me a bracelet on the street, I will be extra careful with the purchase. I’ll approach carefully, ask questions, evaluate situation, etc. Why cant we apply same principle here?

Exactly, there are many examples on how they do it. People should be aware of this.

I made a seperate comment explaining the idea of the infographic, and yes sometimes it is OK to do it but

#1 is for me the most common way people lie and its not ok in majority of cases.

#2 I would say its only ok for correlation but even here it can mislead users.

#3 maybe there is a better example, the idea is that users should know the full story.

The purpose of the infographic is to show some common examples on how charts can be misleading and on what should readers pay attention to.

Yes, there are cases where this is appropriate but more commonly it is just bad design OR (and this is my main point I want to address) sometimes charts are designed like this on purpose in order to mislead users deliberately.

Common population does not possess statistical literacy to read and interpret numbers accurately. Politicians, for example, love to abuse that by showing charts like these. I wanted to present how they commonly do it.