<div dir="auto">What Kathy said.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Here's some commentary from Alberto Cairo that is relevant as well.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2020/05/about-that-weird-georgia-chart.html?m=1">http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2020/05/about-that-weird-georgia-chart.html?m=1</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards, Russell</div><div dir="auto">Department of Writing and Linguistics</div><div dir="auto">Georgia Southern University</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 20, 2020, 1:58 PM Northcut, Kathryn <<a href="mailto:northcut@mst.edu">northcut@mst.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On May 20, 2020, at 12:36 PM, Dragga, Sam <<a href="mailto:Sam.Dragga@ttu.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Sam.Dragga@ttu.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt">A striking example of a misleading column graph is a short-lived item from the Georgia Department of Public Health listing COVID-19 cases in five counties across a 15-day period. The days were not displayed in chronological
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