Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Graphs are pictorial representations of numbers. Therefore, at the least, we ...

A tweet directed me to an interesting article on world population. The author, Jonathan Good, asks the percentage of people who have ever lived that are alive today and then estimates the answer. The ...

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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 ...