Examples of misleading graphs not drawn to scale and a figure with unevenly spaced tick marks are shown. ... We now show a bar graph plotted with the data from the labels of Figure 3.

Graphs that are not drawn to scale mislead the reader. This post shows another example of a graph where the visual representation of the numbers is not proportional to the numbers themselves.

Reserachers tackle the hot topic of whether to define a new 'Anthropocene' epoch as a formal unit of the geologic time scale. In the March-April issue of GSA Today, Stanley Finney (California ...