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Misleading vs. Accurate Graphic

To better show how the data was manipulated, I also created the same graph again, but with ratios that actually accurately represented the data. When put side-by-side with the misleading graphic, its clear just how botched the first graphic is, and highlights how manipulating data in visual data representations like this can have a powerful impact on how we perceive information. 

When I made the second accurate graph (below), it was almost alarming how comparatively tiny many of the minority groups are. For students that identify as Pacific Islander and Native American, the representative circles are both just a couple pixels, and are nearly invisible when put on the same graph as the White, International, and Asian categories. I've included zoomed versions of this accurate graph that shows just how little these categories are.


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