Average housecat shown for scale

Stats Chat 2013-07-05

Summary:

Via Edward Tufte on Twitter, from an Indiana newspaper This is an unusual example of a design that is imaginative, correct, and informative, but is ruined by being much, much easier to misread than to read correctly. The y-axis scales starts at 13ft 6in, the maximum height of a semitrailer, and the graph shows a [...]

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Tags:

graphics risk

Authors:

Thomas Lumley

Date tagged:

07/05/2013, 22:50

Date published:

07/05/2013, 19:56