Kids won’t stop chanting “6-7” in school, and teachers are done playing along

William Loggans defeated school district in court battle over Charlie Kirk poster removal, calling victory a win for students ...

Here’s why teachers are fed up with kids chanting ‘6-7’ in their classrooms: ‘Gonna start kicking people out’

There’s a new phrase echoing through school hallways — and it’s driving teachers up a wall. “Six-seven! Six-seven!” is not a ...
Science Friday

Can You Read A Bar Graph?

Bar graphs seem like one of the simplest ways to represent data. Many people assume that the longer the bar, the bigger the number it represents. Sometimes bar graphs represent an average not a total ...
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Missing the bar: how people misinterpret data in bar graphs

Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research from Wellesley College published in the Journal of ...
Reuters

Fact check: Misleading bar graph presents distorted interpretation of black and white murder rates

Shared on Facebook and Instagram, posts include a bar graph showing “murder of blacks and whites in the US, 2013” broken down by the races of the perpetrators. While the graph itself is accurate, the ...
Science Daily

New study suggests that when forecasting trends, reading a bar chart versus a line graph biases our judgement

A new study suggests that the format in which graphs are presented may be biasing people into being too optimistic or pessimistic about the trends the graphs display. Academics found that when people ...
Science Daily

Missing the bar: How people misinterpret data in bar graphs

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 ...