Most people have decades of experience looking at graphs. We see them in television reports, books, magazines, presentations at work, and on the stock market apps on our phones. On the surface, ...

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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 ...