Preview — The Goal
📊 The Goal: A chart feels like evidence — numbers, axes, science vibes. That's exactly why it's the con artist's favorite outfit: the same true numbers can be dressed up to whisper or scream, and most chart lies never fake a single data point — they just bend the FRAME. The news graphic where a 2% difference towers like a cliff. The 'growth' chart that cherry-picked its start date. The shrinking-axis crime against geometry on cable news. Visual literacy's final boss is reading charts the way editors read text: appreciatively, but armed. Here are the six classic chart lies and the 10-second checks that catch them all.