were to scale? Or even relatively accurate? No.
It doesn't have to be. The y axis is consistent. And that's all that matters here. I've seen worse graphs than these which are factually incorrect. And this doesn't seem to be one of those.
alright.
Wow you’re so contrarian very cool!
Were u involved directly/indirectly in designing that graph?
I'm just speaking as a researcher. I don't see much wrong in that other than their poor choice of scaling. Wouldn't consider it the worst graph in the world just because of that. I had a nice chuckle thinking it's a joke just like the 5'11 vs 6'0 guy joke.
Bad design/graphics can literally create a wrong impression of the data and that fails the main reason of graphs, "to help people in understanding the data in a better way"
I absolutely agree. However, I shared a few examples later on which were worse than this infographic
Well u said "If you're talking about the graphics that are not to scale.. I don't see anything wrong with that since they don't have to be" Graphs and the graphics used to depict them need to scaled properly, else they can create a huge difference in the interpretation of the data
That's the thing with data for the Gen public vs data in research papers. People read things more carefully in the latter, and will focus more on the axes. But since I highly doubt this was published in a paper, it can definitely lead people to infer incorrectly. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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