Numbers wouldn’t lie if we sharpened our chart-reading skills. That’s the argument professor of visual journalism Alberto Cairo puts forward in his book “How Charts Lie,” reports the Washington Post. The book itself sounds like a fascinating read, but for a primer on common misleading charts, Cairo breaks things down simply with reporter Christopher Ingraham: “A slick chart can add a veneer of authority to shoddy or misleading data, he said, so he made it his goal to help readers avoid the common interpretive pitfalls that took him years to figure out for himself.”