Poorly presented data?

It's always interesting to see how statistics are used in the news or for sporting events and how this relates to the content of GCSE Statistics.

On Saturday 27 September 2025, England face Canada in the Women's Rugby World Cup Final at Twickenham. On the Rugby World Cup website, you can find lots of statistics and choose variables to be included in a bar chart comparing the teams from different nations.

The following bar chart shows the number of tries scored by teams. We can see that England has (so far!) scored the most tries as it has the highest bar.

Source: Rugby World Cup website

Another topic within GCSE Statistics, though, is misleading diagrams and diagrams that are poorly presented.

• What thoughts do you have on how the data in the bar chart above is presented?

• Are there any ways that it could be improved?