FIGURE A11 Presenting Unemployment Rates in Different Ways, All of Them Accurate Simply changing the width

and height of the area in which data is displayed can alter the perception of the data.

Suppose you wanted a graph which gives the impression that the rise in unemployment in 2009 was not all

that large, or all that extraordinary by historical standards. You might choose to present your data as in Figure

A9 (a). Figure A9 (a) includes much of the same data presented earlier in Figure A5, but stretches the

horizontal axis out longer relative to the vertical axis. By spreading the graph wide and flat, the visual

appearance is that the rise in unemployment is not so large, and is similar to some past rises in

unemployment. Now imagine you wanted to emphasize how unemployment spiked substantially higher in

2009. In this case, using the same data, you can stretch the vertical axis out relative to the horizontal axis, as in
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