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Re: Terrible graphs

Post by nekomatic » Tue Jan 24, 2023 7:39 am

Look how much China spends on its military!
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Re: Terrible graphs

Post by shpalman » Tue Jan 24, 2023 9:07 am

There were those who tried to correct by image manipulation it but didn't take account of the right y-axis having tics every 100 instead of 50; the correct answer is of course to replot the data at the source:

https://twitter.com/ShangguanJiewen/sta ... 8312864769
having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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