You're not wrong in the sense that trends still tell a story, regardless of units. But this is definitely a misuse of data for storytelling.
You're looking at $total-cc-loans (sum of all people) vs %savings (average of all people). Why not %loans-per-person vs %savings-per-person? Or $loans-pp vs $savings-pp?
OP has normalized one of the values (then scaled it to 0-50% for dramatic purposes) but OP didn't normalize the other.
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You're not wrong in the sense that trends still tell a story, regardless of units. But this is definitely a misuse of data for storytelling.
You're looking at $total-cc-loans (sum of all people) vs %savings (average of all people). Why not %loans-per-person vs %savings-per-person? Or $loans-pp vs $savings-pp?
OP has normalized one of the values (then scaled it to 0-50% for dramatic purposes) but OP didn't normalize the other.