you can use statistics to prove
any point you want.
For example...
Patchou Inc's Turnover
on first glance it seems like the company has made loads more turnover in 2005, roughly about 4.5 times more, however if you look at the scale it starts at 1300000, so the graph is only showing the very top of the actual amount.
Here is was the graph should really look like...
Patchou Inc's Turnover
As you can see it looks far less impressive, however in each of the graphs I haven't changed any of the data, just how it is presented. And it gives a very different picture.
I am not saying that Patchou makes deceiving graphs or anything