Context

One of the big motivations for choosing this subject came from how common it is to seeing numbers on diversity skewed. For instance, when universities publish data about student and faculty diversity, "international" is often a category on its own which can skew the data because it lumps people who may personally identify as Asian or Black into one category. In this way, "international" could include any and every other racial identifier but instead leads to an ambiguous display of information.

While I haven't seen a lot of examples of graphs that show misleading data on diversity specifically, it is not entirely uncommon for organizations to use misleading graphs as a way to show a specific viewpoint or better convince audiences of an opinion. Fox News, for example, has a history of getting caught for presenting misleading graphs like those shown below.