The media represents data in many ways, sometimes in a misrepresented manner so that their point can be made more "convincing" to the viewer.  Find a minimum of 3 examples of data being represented in this manner.  For each example, give a link to the site/representation and answer the following questions:

1.  Where did you find this data/what company or news agency is using it?

2.  What data is the example representing?  Be specific, use the labels on your axes as help if you need it.

3.  What makes the data misleading?

4.  Why would this agency use this representation?

5.  What does the data really show?

a)Misleading statistics in media and politics.

https://www.datapine.com/blog/misleading-statistics-and-data/

This site provides us an idea of how the media misrepresents the data.

Here we consider three examples:

 

1. Planned parenthood federations use this data.we get this data from above websites.

2. Data example represents PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA with years on X-axis and Y-axis representing cancer screening preventative services.

3. Outnumbers the quality of abortion misleading statistics.

4. Agency represents the potential misuse of statistics in media and politics.

5. Data show the yearwise cancer screening and abortion procedures.

 

b) https://www.datapine.com/blog/misleading-statistics-and-data/

1. Data pines press use this data and we get data from the above site.
2. Data represents the global air temperature changes in celsius with X-axis represents the years and Y-axis representing temperature in celsius.
3. Here, if we consider the data from 1998-2012, there is a large variability within the climates and if data from 1990-2012 there is gradual warming.This is perfect misleading statistics.
4. Agency uses this data for NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
5. Data shows year wise changes in global temperatures.

 

c) https://towardsdatascience.com/stopping-covid-19-with-misleading-graphs-6812a61a57c9

1.Russia today uses this data and we get this data from the above website.

2. Data represents daywise COVID-19 cases with X-axis representing days and Y-axis representing the number of COVID-19 cases.

3. Visual increase corresponds to numeric increase mislead and some media make use of it to deceive us.

4. Russia today uses this data to represent the number of deaths and hospitalizations in each of these impacted countries.

5.Data shows the number of COVID-19 cases in Russia from March 5 to March 31. 

Step-by-step explanation

a)https://www.datapine.com/blog/misleading-statistics-and-data/

Links represent the data in the digital age and discover the potential for misuse of Statistics in media.

1. We get data from the following website:

https://www.datapine.com/blog/misleading-statistics-and-data/

In the US, on 29 September 2015, there was misappropriation of 500 million dollars in annual federal funding. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America uses this data.

 

2.In this example, this graph represents the points of consequence.

Pink line represents the reduction in breast exams.

Red line represents increasing in abortion.

This chart shows that the number of abortions since 206 faced substantial growth, while cancer screening decreased.

The graph; 327000 abortions are greater than 935573 cancer screening. Graph has no defined Y-axis. It means that there is no justification for placement of visible measurement lines.

 

3.Misleading statistics in the media is common. 

This is another graph with a clearly defined scale. It shows that number of cancer screening is decreasing, it still far outnumbers the quantity of abortion procedures performed yearly. As such, this mislead statistics. Also, their is bias considering because chart is originated by Americans United life not from Congressman.

 

4.Polifact, to check and focus from cancer screening to abortion as well as for comparision with planned parenthood's annual report.

5.This data actually represents the annual report of planned parenthood.

 

B) https://www.datapine.com/blog/misleading-statistics-and-data/

We found data from the above website.

1. The data is used in NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
2.  Data represents the global mean temperature from 1998 to 2012.

We have data demonstrates the change in air temperature (Celsius) from 1998 t0 2012

X-axis represents the years.

The Y-axis represents the temperature in celsius.

3.

If we take the trend from 1990 to 2012, long term data reflect a plateau. It is a picture of gradual warming.Therefore, using the first graph and only the first graph represents the global temperature is perfectly misleading the statistics.

 

4. It is generally agreed that the global temperature in 1998 was 58.3 degree.

In 2012 global temperature was 58.2 degree.Therefore, it was argued by global warming opponents that there was 0.1 degree decrease in global temperature over a 14 year period.To check this claim NASA space study used this data.

 

5. Data shows the global mean temperature with years.

 

 

C) https://towardsdatascience.com/stopping-covid-19-with-misleading-graphs-6812a61a57c9

This link shows the misleading od COVID-19 data.

1.We get this data from the above website.Russia Today(RT News) use this data.

The "Russia Today" uses this data to check the number of COVID-19 cases from 5 March to 31 March.

2.  This data is used for visual differences corresponding to differences in the numbers.

In this graph X-axis represents the dates and Y-axis represents the N0.of COVID-19 cases.

4. In this graph we see that the number of cases is increasing exponentially, and it is wondering. Graph are conveying complex statistics to the general audience. This graph is misleading people to make wrong conclusions about the world.

5. Data represents the number of COVID-19 cases daywise.

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