It's only misleading if you don't know what a logarithmic scale is

It's not like logarithmic scales were invented to fool people. Graph B shows that approximately half the world's population has an income of under 10 dollars a day. If you showed it without a logarithmic scale it would be harder to read.

Posted By: yarmyyarmy on November 7th 2013 at 12:16:13

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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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