Comparing Graphs

This activity will collect data about your opinion regarding the clarity of some statistical graphs. When you have finished you will have access to all the data collected by this activity and invited to do some statistical analysis. Your work could be part of a school project, coursework or school internal assessment.

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Which is the best graph?

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Ticket Prices Source: 101 Questions

Illness from Suchi Source: Pinterest

What does better mean? In this case it means which graph is clearer in terms of communicating statistics to you. This is a personal choice and in some cases it will be difficult to make but do your best.

Which is the best graph?

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A Typical Day Source: Transum.org

Beach Ball Sales Source: Pinterest

What does better mean? In this case it means which graph is clearer in terms of communicating statistics to you. This is a personal choice and in some cases it will be difficult to make but do your best.

Which is the best graph?

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Fantasy Olympics Medals Source: Transum.org

Renewable Energy Source: Thejesh GN

What does better mean? In this case it means which graph is clearer in terms of communicating statistics to you. This is a personal choice and in some cases it will be difficult to make but do your best.

Which is the best graph?

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NASA's Core Priorities Source: Presentation Zen

Time in front of the mirror Source: Statista

What does better mean? In this case it means which graph is clearer in terms of communicating statistics to you. This is a personal choice and in some cases it will be difficult to make but do your best.

Which is the best graph?

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Federal Welfare Source: USA Today

Global Warming Stopped Source: Mail on Sunday

What does better mean? In this case it means which graph is clearer in terms of communicating statistics to you. This is a personal choice and in some cases it will be difficult to make but do your best.

Which is the best graph?

Graph 1 Graph 12

UK Newspaper Politics Source: YouGov

Infographic Agro Source: Anton Egorov

What does better mean? In this case it means which graph is clearer in terms of communicating statistics to you. This is a personal choice and in some cases it will be difficult to make but do your best.

This activity uses Comparative Judgement based on the fact that people are better at making comparative, paired judgements, than isolated evaluations. You are presented with two randomly chosen statistical graphs or charts side-by-side and asked to use your judgement to select which of the two is most efficient at communicating the data accurately. Through repeated comparisons by many different visitors to this page, a reliable rank order is created by combining the judgements of all the visitors.

 

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