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Do I understand the graph correctly that the share of tech jobs in california fell from ~10.5% to ~8.7% while in the same time it 'rose' from ~7.3% to ~7.7% in
by SushiHippie 2y ago
Do I understand the graph correctly that the share of tech jobs in california fell from ~10.5% to ~8.7% while in the same time it 'rose' from ~7.3% to ~7.7% in Texas? Or how are the two different Y Axis supposed to be interpreted?
- bburnett44 2y agoMy guess is Californias percentage is on the left and Texas is right. So california went from 20.5ish to 16ish
- bityard 2y agoIt's not you, it's a bad graph for several reasons: The Y axes are not anchored at zero, a tactic used to exaggerate small changes (and noise). The Y axes do not start in the same place, and are not even on the same scale, meaning there is no actual (visual) relation between the two sets of data. This is graph is basically How to Lie with Statistics 101. The author seems to be trying to show a correlation where one might not exist. (Edit: There is also a footnote saying that they're lumping in movie-making, music recording, and television/radio broadcasting into their definition of "tech." Further reason to not really take this seriously.)