OK, so there's loads of information on the electronic street.
Getting data to back up your point? No problem.

But wait!
What's this?

Dodgy scales on graphs; loaded sampling methods; poor research - it all adds up.
They're messing us around.

Avoid being messed around.
Read this section!

There are four main areas of this section and you can access them at any time using the navigation bar on the left. The four sections are:

• Explanation - a brief guide to the issues relating to distorting the truth of the data
• Illustration - six ways of being economical with the truth
• Worksheets - a worksheet on choosing a suitable chart to represent the data (also available in the 'picturing' section)
• Review - a brief summary of the topics covered in the 'lie-detecting' section and a final case study on detecting codes