Ah, the sort of graphs you use when you don't want to be understood. I remember, back when I was doing some research having to explain to people what a standar

Ah, the sort of graphs you use when you don't want to be understood. I remember, back when I was doing some research having to explain to people what a standard deviation was and what confidence meant. There are ways to talk to people who don't know statistics - for instance if you talk about percentages people glaze, however, if you talk about 25 people in every hundred, that's something they can tend to engage with better.... If you use a bar chart, people tend to be used to looking at those. Drop 'correlates with' and use 'relates to' - that sort of thing. It seems silly, it's all the same stuff. But some people have addition, division and multiplication as more or less the extent of their mathematical skills - because that's all they've been called upon to use since school. There's nothing wrong with that most of the time, I mean it's entirely understandable, it just means that if you're talking to them half the job is putting it in forms that they can understand.