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MrMitchWeaver t1_iziz6qy wrote

Reply to comment by Stannic50 in [OC] How to spot misleading charts? I would like to hear your opinion on the subject, also any tips design-wise? by dark_o3

Here's a great example I just ran into https://www.advisorperspectives.com/images/content_image/data/a3/a310f2c1738037eb2e55deb0b7a54134.png

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bosschucker t1_izkebe4 wrote

I don't really love this example tbh. look at where the lines cross at 82.5% - what does that tell you? the viz is clearly saying that there is some significance to 82.5% of workers being full time by nature of having that be where the lines meet - but what does it actually mean? you could move the axes so that the lines cross at whatever arbitrary point you want. if your viz is going to imply that a certain data point is significant, I think it actually should be

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MrMitchWeaver t1_izklsm9 wrote

I think it's a good example insofar it shows two series that need different axes of the same unit and are absolutely correlated. I'm not talking about the data itself. It's more a response to the other person's points.

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