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That plot is terrible. I had assumed that it was butchered by the journalist… but it's exactly the same in the paper. Which axis is the number of speakers? W
by 3JPLW 11y ago
That plot is terrible. I had assumed that it was butchered by the journalist… but it's exactly the same in the paper. Which axis is the number of speakers? What is the "real ratio"? I expected better from PLOS ONE.
- thebelal 11y agoThe axis are described in the text > The x axis (log scaled) gives the number of speakers (plus one, so as not to make dead languages fall off the scale). The y axis, also log scaled, shows the adjusted wikipedia size. As is the real ratio > real ratio, defined as the number of ‘real’ pages divided by the total page count Not sure why they couldn't put the above in the figure legend (or better yet label the plot directly). I agree it is poorly done.