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Please don’t actually use these 5,6,7-way Venn diagrams for anything practical, they’re virtually useless and communicate nothing.
by keeeba 1y ago
Please don’t actually use these 5,6,7-way Venn diagrams for anything practical, they’re virtually useless and communicate nothing.
- paulddraper 1y agoThanks, I was just about to do that!
- roadside_picnic 1y agoTechnically a Venn diagram's entire point is to visualize all possible set relations between N sets. Their "practical" use is explicitly visualizing this. In popular terminology they are very often confused with Euler Diagrams [0] which represent meaningful relations in sets but not all possible. You shouldn't create Euler Diagrams this complex, but the raison d'etre of Venn diagrams is to visualize the complex nature of set relations. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_diagram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_diagram
- emmelaich 1y agoAgree, I think the linked Upset diagram is better.
- somat 1y agoThere is always the complicated wires puzzle from "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes". Where a 5 way Venn diagram encodes what action you need to take for a given state. https://bombmanual.com/web/index.html#ComplicatedWires https://bombmanual.com/web/index.html#ComplicatedWires However you could make a good argument that having a complicated and confusing diagram is the point of that puzzle.