Week 2 Discussion
“Using Charts and Tables to Promote Organizational Efficiency” View the video below and discuss one of the scenarios presented. Identify the distortion in the graph and discuss the potential effect on a decision.
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There are various ways of presenting data from a study that focuses on particular details of the economy. Graphs are the visual representations using raw data that allow the audience to conduct an analysis of the events and try to find out the meaning. There is, however, a significant challenge of misleading information when dealing with Bar graphs, line graphs, and pies. Depending on the issues that the figure is presenting, the audience might take the meanings differently and hence diminish the correct understanding of concepts in society.
Using the video given, the line graphs might seem like the most exact ways of explaining the figures received from a study, but they also mislead the most.
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