you say that, and yet in question 5 they use the same chart

Which creates a completely different curve. Are they testing people's ignorance of graphs, or ignorance of knowledge in the subject.

The chart could have been just as wide, just it would be more bunched, as it should be to represent the data properly rather than giving the false impression incomes are closer.

Posted By: phrankin on November 7th 2013 at 12:06:57

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I got 3 which makes me roughly as clever as a chimp (General Chat) - Old Man, Nov 7, 10:19:54
- I got 6, but only because I realised that the agenda (General Chat) - dennis moore, Nov 7, 12:56:01
- 6/9 --> But the research is on a par of stupidity as yesterday's football one (General Chat) - phrankin, Nov 7, 11:19:41
  - Why is stupid to point out that people's pre-conceived ideas about population,wealth and (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Nov 7, 11:22:22
    - People are mostly wrong about everything they know little about. (n/m) (General Chat) - phrankin, Nov 7, 11:30:31
      - Which is what this research demonstrates (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Nov 7, 11:33:01
  - weren't most of them just demographic facts? (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Nov 7, 11:21:25
    - wonderful charts like this (General Chat) - phrankin, Nov 7, 11:26:30
      - What's wrong with it? (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Nov 7, 11:27:32
        
        it falsely makes the wealth of countries look closer than they actually are (General Chat) - phrankin, Nov 7, 11:28:34
        
        Eh? (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Nov 7, 11:30:26
        
        I think he is suggesting that the use of a logarithmic scale for the x-axis is incorrect (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Nov 7, 11:35:42
        
        Exactly (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Nov 7, 11:37:57
        
        exactly what? Misrepresenting data? (n/m) (General Chat) - phrankin, Nov 7, 11:45:11
        
        They aren't misrepresenting anything (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Nov 7, 11:53:57
        
        you say that, and yet in question 5 they use the same chart (General Chat) - phrankin, Nov 7, 12:06:57
        
        in fact I would go so far to say, that if those graphs were visible (General Chat) - phrankin, Nov 7, 12:10:49
        
        It's only misleading if you don't know what a logarithmic scale is (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Nov 7, 12:16:13
        
        the graph is clearly misleading... the actual distribution is more like graph A (General Chat) - phrankin, Nov 7, 12:19:53
        
        and of course, a key thing in a survey like this (General Chat) - phrankin, Nov 7, 12:23:58
        
        *scale (n/m) (General Chat) - phrankin, Nov 7, 12:20:16
        
        I did not say it was incorrect. I said it was misleading. (n/m) (General Chat) - phrankin, Nov 7, 11:37:49
        
        If you can't see it.... (n/m) (General Chat) - phrankin, Nov 7, 11:33:37
- I stopped after question four because I kept getting them wrong and it was a boring quiz (General Chat) - norway, Nov 7, 10:41:33
- I got them all because that link gave all the answers... (n/m) (General Chat) - duke of york, Nov 7, 10:28:20
- 9/9 (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Nov 7, 10:27:46

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