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i dont see how compressing the past ruins the present day extrapolation? How does the conclusion change for you if the graph was 3x wider on the left? The title
by nh23423fefe 3mo ago
i dont see how compressing the past ruins the present day extrapolation? How does the conclusion change for you if the graph was 3x wider on the left? The title is "rates are rising" is that not true?
- danlitt 3mo agoThat specific conclusion is unaffected, but that doesn't make it okay. If they used fake numbers, but the conclusion were still the same, you presumably wouldn't think that was okay either?
- Normal_gaussian 3mo agoA graph is much more than one conclusion; in fact, almost the entire point of graphing is to allow the comparison of "shapes" and to easily hypothesise about associations across datasets. This graph misrepresents the rate the price declines and the length of time it has been stable for, which throws off nearly all non-trivial conclusions.
- nh23423fefe 3mo agoIt doesn't mis-represent it. If you think that, then you think log plots misrepresent rates.
- Normal_gaussian 3mo agoA) a log scale is self consistent B) be careful about telling other people what they think