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> we judge 2D shapes by their area I've seen this claim a few times in discussions about such charts, but it's far from obvious to me that this is really true.
by p-e-w 4y ago
> we judge 2D shapes by their area
I've seen this claim a few times in discussions about such charts, but it's far from obvious to me that this is really true. My best guess based on my own perception is that we estimate quantities represented by circles as proportional to something between the diameter and the area.
- alanbernstein 4y agoWouldn't that be even worse for interpretability?
- RC_ITR 4y agoWell is the unit is the diameter, then why add extra dimensionality at all then? That’s literally what bar charts are for. I can feel a Tufte monologue coming on, even.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoHuman beings are spectacularly shit at comparing areas. If you put two circles next to each other, one with double area of the other, most humans will say their relation is 3:2.