Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research has found that bar graphs are frequently misunderstood ...

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Looks can be deceiving and that's one of the problems with today's three-dimensional bar graph. While these graphs may look correct, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public ...