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Activity focus

  • graph titles and labels
  • graph readability
  • category ordering and consistency

Practice set

  1. List four problems in a graph that has:
    • no title
    • unlabeled y-axis
    • overlapping category names
    • inconsistent spellings
  2. Suggest a good category order for satisfaction levels:
    • high, low, medium
  3. Why is visual simplicity important in a statistical graph?

Answer key

    • unclear subject
    • unclear values on y-axis
    • difficult category reading
    • category confusion due to inconsistent labels
  1. low, medium, high
  2. It improves readability and reduces interpretation errors.