Interpreting secondary data presented in digital media and elsewhere
Chapters
In this video lesson, we will explore how to Interpret secondary data presented in digital media such as graphs shown in newspapers etc.
Elaborations
- briefly investigating data representations in the media and discussing what they illustrate and the messages the people who created them might want to convey
- briefly identifying potentially misleading data representations in the media, such as graphs with broken axes or non-linear scales, graphics not drawn to scale, data not related to the population about which the claims are made, and pie charts in which the whole pie does not represent the entire population about which the claims are made
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Added on: 26th Aug 2016
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Elaborations
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- investigating data representations in the media and discussing what they illustrate and the messages the people who created them might want to convey
- identifying potentially misleading data representations in the media, such as graphs with broken axes or non-linear scales, graphics not drawn to scale, data not related to the population about which the claims are made, and pie charts in which the whole pie does not represent the entire population about which the claims are made
Transcript
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