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CavMan1

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Stats teacher beef: using circles to represent quantities


about halfway down the NYT page, they are using different size circles to represent tallies. These can be misleading because making the radii proportional to the data may seem honest, but the areas (which tend to catch the eye) are proportional to the square of the data. Circle w/ radius 2 is 4 times the area of a circle w/ radius 1.

(In response to this post by graycalhoo)

Posted: 12/12/2017 at 10:20PM



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