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# By truncating the bottom of a line or bar chart, one makes differences seem larger than they are

# By representing one-dimensional quantities by two- or three-dimensional objects to compare their sizes, one makes the reader forget that the images don't scale the same way the quantities do.

==Chapters==

# The Sample with the Built-in Bias

# The Well-Chosen Average

# The Little Figures That Are Not There

# Much Ado about Practically Nothing

# The Gee-Whiz Graph

# The One-Dimensional Picture

# The Semi-attached Figure

# Post Hoc Rides Again

# How to Statisticulate

# How to Talk Back to a Statistic

==Notes and references==

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