Oh, and there’s a typo in “Labor arty”. What kind of trickery is this?! Of course, maybe I shouldn’t be surprised. It’s not like misleading pie charts are exactly new for News Corp pubs.

Bar charts make simple, for example, a comparison of the approval ratings of the last dozen US presidents during their first 100 days (hint: Trump’s is worse than the notoriously disliked Gerald ...

However, the simple phrase fared the best—improving the subjects’ perceptions of scientific consensus by 17.88 percentage points—and the pie chart came in second (14.38 percentage points).

EmbedVideo (1266, 482, 304); Editor's Note: We've been looking at inequality quite a bit lately. In the piece 'Land of the Free, Home of the Poor,' we used a trio of pie charts broken down into ...

But rather than use an appropriate bar chart, the accompanying graphic displayed a pie chart. Mathematically, pie charts have to total 100 percent. FOX's pie figures add up to 193 percent.

The versatile chart can be used in all sorts of situations. Like to figure out how much pie one has eaten. Or to represent one's favorite video game character.