An initial value of 100 what? And over what time period? It's common practice to not label graphs correctly or at all, but without labels, graphs don't offer an

An initial value of 100 what? And over what time period? It's common practice to not label graphs correctly or at all, but without labels, graphs don't offer any representation of a model of reality (so the author is free to claim the graph indicates whatever he wants it to indicate). ... So if you click the link below the graph for the source data, the data that was graphed was the number of robots per ten thousand workers in the manufacturing industry in 2016. The report also indicated that the US had the second highest number of robots per 10000 workers in the automotive industry in 2016 after South Korea. Given that the article's main point was that the computer industry distorts the overall growth numbers for US manufacturing, it may be worth pointing out that different industries within the overall manufacturing industry may find different levels of automation appropriate at our current level of technology. Without a clearer picture of the relative representation of different manufacturing industries in each of these countries and what's considered state-of-the-art in terms of automation for each, I don't think the data for this graph can be used to unambiguously support the author's conclusion. Link to the source report: https://ifr.org/downloads/press/Executive_Summary_WR_2017_Industrial_Robots.pdf https://ifr.org/downloads/press/Executive_Summary_WR_2017_In...