Excellent video. That is all.
Here, have a Chart With Upwards Trend and Yen Sign Emoji. 
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Like I saidâwe have to agree to disagree. Iâm just saying I wouldnât present that as a graph to a decision maker. Some would misinterpret the ratios and some would call it out for what it isâpoor graphical presentation of information.
There are no other graphs which put the trend in its proper perspective in that Vox article. Some folks need text, some need graphs, and some need tables. When you present this sort of information to decision makers, all of it needs to be presented in all ways.
From your snarky comments, it sounds like youâre trolling me, so Iâm going to end this here. BestâOO
My favorite is the inappropriate semilog plot.
Another great one is the indisputable correlation between any two increasing trends:
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Wouldnât the logical thing to do to emphasize the drop in participation be, to plot the inverse, ie. the percentage of nonparticipants? With a y axis of 0?
Iâm totally snarky, but thatâs not driving trollies. Youâve got to admit that the incomplete percent axis bit is an interesting point, true?
You just happened to go a bit strong on something that Iâve had to battle with more than once myself.
I still think youâre missing a couple of key points, like why the appropriate bottom axis isnât zero but at best the point at which the issue becomes catastrophicâŚI agree there are always better things that can be done, but Iâm disagreeing that the zero axis version is even vaguely useful when compared to every other visualization Iâve identified.
Thatâs what youâre arguing for, and I see it as a purists argument that misses the point of delivering information well, which was also the point of the video, which is what you snarked on.
Relevant for Canadian values of global temperature, I guess. 0 degrees C and 2/3 of 270K (surface melting point) are important because thatâs a nice basic offset for PCR in electrolyte and its natural variants. We should let National Review tell us about how it makes most of its subscriptions to space- and vacuum-hardened nanolife anyhow.
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I agree as well, that is a good one⌠
We all agree that correlation isnât causation, it gets really tricky when correlation is influenced by a unidentified third thing and seemingly unrelated things actually are tied together in an unexpected way.
A really bad example but Iâm making one up so whateverâŚforest fires donât drive almond butter prices, but they are both affected by drought, which might drive a correlation in graphs of almond butter prices and forest fires. That graph is meaningless without the precipitation information though, which is the key factor.
Those mystery relations are fun to try and suss out, but they just as often donât exist, so one can go mad trying to find relationships that donât exist outside of chance.
Fun, all right, and this one highlights the fact that whatâs missing is a hypothesis. In this case the graph supports a Nick Cage-drownings connection, meaning thereâs a need for more research.
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I suppose they could be suicides? Too bad thereâs not a data point on âlast movie watched before drowningâ.
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