This research aims to approach and analyze the mistakes present in statistical
graphics published in the media, seeking the construction of subsidies for the
interpretation and critical analysis of these tools in the context of statistical literacy
practices. Therefore, it was developed a bibliographic research in which was listed
articles published in newspapers, magazines and websites, characterizing itself as a
descriptive research. The main results point the weaknesses in the proper use of
statistical tools, such as: bars of graphics with disproportional widths and sizes,
incompatibility of the data labels with the values of the vertical axis, absence of the
ordinate axis, omission of zero and interruption of the scale at the beginning of the
vertical axis in line graphics inadvertently, imprecision of allegorical figures within
pictograms etc. It was noticed that there is a need a better statistical training of the
professionals of the press, because the graphic communication is being used in an
inadequate way by the mass media sometimes. In addition to the need of a
population literate statistically.
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