3.44 Software defaults of graphing programs for depicting the “world’s deepest” trash bin: The car company Volkswagen has sponsored a “fun theory” campaign in recent years in which ordinary behaviors are given game-like incentives to promote prosocial behaviors such as recycling or obeying the speed limit. In one example, Volkswagen placed a seemingly super-deep trash bin in a park in Sweden; when a person would throw something out, a high-pitched whistling sound played for 7 seconds, culminating in a far-off-sounding boom, as if the item had fallen for hundreds of feet! The fun-theory people collected data; in a single day, 72 kilograms of trash was thrown out in their “deep” bin, versus just 31 kilograms in a nearby trash bin.

a. Use a software program that produces graphs (e.g., Excel, SPSS, Minitab) to create a bar graph for these data, using the default options.

b. Play with the options available to you. List aspects of the bar graph that you are able to change to make your graph meet the guidelines listed in this chapter. Be specific, and include the revised graph.