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