> I love how none of these charts use 0 as a base for the y-axis. Lies, damned lies, statistics... Articles written for an informed audience don't need to dumb

> I love how none of these charts use 0 as a base for the y-axis. Lies, damned lies, statistics... Articles written for an informed audience don't need to dumb down their charts by starting at zero. The authors assume the readers have eyes and can see where the charts begin and end. For the specific article in question, the lowest value on the chart is 1.450, and dropping the axis down to zero would not add any useful information; it would just add whitespace. It's a chart with linear axes that is sized to capture the entire range of data. There is no trickery there.