alleryStart learning →Which Scottish economist is widely credited with inventing the bar chart?
AJohn Tukey
BWilliam Playfair
CFrancis Galton
DKarl Pearson
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. William Playfair
Many sources credit William Playfair, whose 1786 Commercial and Political Atlas used bars.
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