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Because sometimes God gives us doses of humor where least expected, I submit for your enjoyment the following:

"The use of deceptive graphs is eloquently described in Edward Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Tufte asks the question, "Why do artists draw graphs that lie, and why do major newspapers publish them?" His answers range from the artists' lack of quantitative skills to attempts to make statistical data less boring. Tufte's basic premise is that statistical graphs should tell the truth. He describes the most common graphical lies and how to avoid them. He mentions that simpler graphs are often better and that oftentimes a pretty graph is the least informative. The book is highly recommended for anyone who is in the business of producing or interpreting statistical information."

-- Kvanli, A.H., Pavur, R.J., and Keeling, K.B. Concise Managerial Statistics. Canada: South-Western, 2006, pp. 44. (italices added).

Those stats authors, they're a real barrel full of monkeys, aren't they? (Turns away, still laughing and more amused than any normal person should be.)