• ajouter [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    this is factual. women who are 5'5 are 4 times taller than women who are 5'0.

  • REallyN [she/her,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Is this like the woman quivalent to those 5’11 vs 6’0 memes.
    The people in the middle have an inch on me, but the graph makes it look like a foot or more.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I think it's just someone who doesn't understand how to display data. The y-axis forces the distortion.

  • D61 [any]
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    2 years ago

    This chart makes my wife look like a giant

  • Ideology [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    🎵 All I wanna do is see you turn into
    A giant woman,
    A giant woman!
    All I wanna be is someone who gets to see
    A giant woman... 🎵

  • hploveshack [any]
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    2 years ago

    So it looks like someone just clipped the figures and manually just resized them to the graph, am I predicting what happened here accurately? Not a graphic person, but I've dabbled enough to come up with this guess.

    • Ideology [she/her]
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      edit-2
      2 years ago

      Having a bar graph where the widths of the bars are different is a big no-no. It creates an obviously distorted perception like we're seeing. If you want to display area like for a 2-dimensional metric or showing proportions, there are different graphs for that.

      Also the y-axis on this distorts things even further by starting at 5ft which is a visual trick you should only use in datasets where minute differences actually do change outcomes.

      • hploveshack [any]
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        2 years ago

        Ah, I didn't even pay enough attention to notice the Y axis!

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I wonder how much of the average human hight is impacted by nutrition during thr adolescent years.

    • ultraviolet [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      It's pretty important and one of the reasons why people have gotten taller on average over the past hundred or so years.