The question shouldn't be "is pie chart X better than bar chart Y for making point Z?" but "what is the best way to express point Z?" In this case, the given b

The question shouldn't be "is pie chart X better than bar chart Y for making point Z?" but "what is the best way to express point Z?" In this case, the given bar chart was a poorer way to express the point. Here's a text diagram which I believe is more informative than the give pie chart, though I have some fencepost errors due to character alignment. [ A │ B │ C │D] 0' ' '12 ' '24 A variation is: AAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBCCCCDDD 0| ' ½ ' |1 or if you don't want to count the letters, here's a variation with an explicit count: A B C D [----12----][-5-][4-][3] 0| ' ' ' |24