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The numbers 0–99 sorted alphabetically in different languages (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] chonglibloodsport 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

A bit confusing to read. The points are placed on the y-axis using ordinals rather than cardinals. This means if you were to extend the plotting (say, up to 200) it would cause the existing data points to move around. That’s not usually what we expect when plotting data.

Edit: actually, the problem is more severe than I initially thought. If the y-axis were plotted with cardinals (the way we usually plot data) then the German case would show 10 horizontal lines, immediately revealing a pattern in the data (caused by Germans speaking the ones digit before the tens digit).

[–] BreadOven 1 points 3 months ago

Agreed. Proper graphs should be easily interpreted by most people looking at them, without asking a bunch of questions.

This one is a bit too out there. By a bit, much too far. This could not be published in a scientific journal. (Although a lot of published graphs aren't great either).

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