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Why? For a roughly stable population like the US, the "baseline" is that something like 1/79/52 of the population dies every week, since life expectancy is 79 y
by lutorm 6y ago
Why? For a roughly stable population like the US, the "baseline" is that something like 1/79/52 of the population dies every week, since life expectancy is 79 years. Zero deaths is nonsensical.
- sp332 6y agoThe difference between the peak of this year and previous years is about 50%. The graph makes it look much larger.
- CivBase 6y agoThat's not the point. It's very hard to appreciate the scale of a difference between two elements on a graph if the graph's scale does not start at zero.
- phaemon 6y agoThat's completely wrong. And by that I mean "you just failed your statistics class" wrong. Imagine you had a graph of earth's temperature and decided to set the y axis at absolute zero. What would that look like? Would it be in any way useful?