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Image shows a tweet with the header "and people STILL try to convince me Linux and Windows are better when the DATA clearly shows otherwise. SMH" with an image attached showing the following:

"Operating systems by current version" Mac OS: 14 Windows: 11 Linux: 6

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[–] iAvicenna 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

who the fuck made this horrible graphic? when will people realize that grossly redundant features that also complicate interpretation (such as trying to make a bar plot 3d) is absolutely one of the worst things you can do.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this kind of the point of the graph?

[–] iAvicenna 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When used correctly the point of the graph is to make use of the fact that humans are super fast at visual convolution tasks but not so great at doing mental statistics. If your graph makes the interpretation of complicated statistical facts immediate for the viewer (and as faithful to the facts as possible, whatever that means) then it has achieved its purpose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I get that, I know what a graph is, but this is clearly meant as a meme, hence the lacking axis descriptions and scale, and the 3d rendering. It's literally just a meme

[–] iAvicenna 3 points 10 months ago

hmm I thought it was a meme built on top of a real graph

[–] abeltramo 9 points 10 months ago