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tfcallahan1 t1_j4fvdah wrote

Reply to comment by BroadElderberry in How do people across the world spend their time and what does this tell us about living conditions? by kraken_enrager

Yeah. So a question is does this graph provide any useful information? If it were restricted to say persons employed full time between certain ages it would provide information for each country that can be more directly compared.

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BroadElderberry t1_j4hnr86 wrote

I think it does. It gives average times spent on certain activities for people aged 15-64 across several countries. As long as you understand what each of the bolded phrases mean and the influence they have on the outcome, it's a very useful and interesting graph.

There's a reason statistics is an entire field. Making assumptions or expecting a graph to say something it isn't is super easy to do.

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