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The contemporary world is characterized by a large volume of produced information. However, selecting and reading this information through research reports or news is still a challenge. Among the present obstacles stand out the information bias, originated by treatments of journalists or researchers, or even intentionally provoked to subvert the representation of reality from the obtained data. Thus, the present study aims to discuss the interpretation of visual information in graphical representations of statistical calculations in order to contextualize some of the main visual bias features of research. To this end, it addresses the main modes of search bias from statistical representations and data visualization and identifies some steps in which bias translates into visual information. From the study, it is suggested that the visual understanding of data visualization resources may at least instigate the reader's question about the possible bias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]