Discussion of Sources Project 2

The main source I used for project 2 was the reading by Huff which I found gave a really interesting perspective on the use of visual data. Huff discussed the ways in which visual data can be used to mislead an audience which is often done through the use of graphs. This can be done by leaving bigger or smaller gaps between numbers to make it look like there was a more or less significant drop in the data. This then linked to what Zompetti said in his reading about the use of statistics in a similar way. Zompetti explained that referencing only statistics as evidence can be misleading as you do not know what numbers are being compared on a larger scale, meaning that a sample of 10 people could be compared to a sample of 40 people without the audience being aware.

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