I second the recommendation of Gelman’s blog. He’s written a lot more about this particular case since then. Here’s a more recent article on the topic, for ins

I second the recommendation of Gelman’s blog. He’s written a lot more about this particular case since then. Here’s a more recent article on the topic, for instance: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/10/07/alexey-guzey-plays-stat-detective-how-many-observations-are-in-each-bar-of-this-graph/ https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/10/07/alexey-guz...