In article "2006 CENSUS" in the Ottawa Citizen (2007-07-18), there is a bar graph entitled "The century club". The bar for "'06" is almost 3 times as high as the bar for "'96", implying that the number of centenarians in 2006 is almost 3 times as large as the number of centenarians in 1996.
Upon close examination of the numbers, however, 4 635 for 2006 is only 1.4832 times as much as 3 125 for 1996.
Such numerical misrepresentation is by no means unique to the Ottawa Citizen. I wish that the media would be careful not to make illusions out of statistics, inadvertently or intentionally, please.
