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Why on Earth did they shade the percent of men smoking darker than the women? That means in countries where about the same proportion of women as men smoke, whi
by c3534l 8y ago
Why on Earth did they shade the percent of men smoking darker than the women? That means in countries where about the same proportion of women as men smoke, which is most countries, the female map is colored as having a higher percentage than men because they made the key identical minus 10%. This makes me irrationally angry.
- nubbins 8y agoI was trying to figure out why countries had more women smoking than men which I’ve never observed anywhere, with regards to smoking or really any dangerous habit.
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- pmalynin 8y agoActually, as some one who grew up in Ukraine I did see somewhere that there, teenagers had more girls smoking that boys.
- wyldfire 8y agoYeah, they normalized the color range to the data within each set instead of among both sets. I agree, it's confusing.
- seandougall 8y agoSame here — I didn’t even notice what was going on until I saw the men vs women plot with almost everything above the y = x line. Also the “number of daily smokers” plot makes no sense in absolute terms, and really seems like it ought to be per capita. Lots of questionable data viz here, plus some graphs clearly copied and pasted from elsewhere.