Data (Mis)representation and COVID-19: Leveraging Misleading Data Visualizations For Developing Statistical Literacy Across Grades 6–16

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Fig. 1 Plot shared by Rachel Maddow on Twitter and live on The Rachel Maddow Show on August 6^th, 2020.

Fig. 2 Steven Strogatz’s Twitter comment to show a recreation of a plot showing the number of daily cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 in the population of Kansas.

Fig. 3 Tweet on May 16 by Calling Bullshit showing a misleading plot produced by the Georgia Department of Public Health.

Fig. 4 Plot published in Acquah (2020, May) utilizing two vertical axes to compare ice cream consumption and drowning deaths across time to represent association.

Acquah, K. (2020, May), “Getting in to a Causal Flow.” Causal Flows: A Causal Introduction to Causal Inference for Business Analytics. Available at: https://www.causalflows.com/introduction/

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