Question 2.323

9. Living with AIDS. Consider the accompanying graphic.

  1. What point is the graphic trying to make?
  2. Which of the eight common problems is most obviously present here?
  3. Construct a graphic that is not misleading in this way.
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2.4.9

(a) The number of people living with AIDS is increasing.

(b) Using two dimensions (area) to emphasize a one-dimensional difference.

(c)

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