• egrets@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I don’t want to defend England’s housing building, but the Y axis not starting at 0 is visually misleading. Here’s a very rough correction:

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      2 days ago

      I did exactly this for a different post a few weeks ago. Non zero starting point on the Y axis is one of the most used subtle swindler mechanisms in journalism imo.

    • alucard (they/them)@feddit.org
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      2 days ago

      Thank you, very important point! I was trying to find that pic of a graph where the question is something like “Does it matter where the graph starts?” and the lower part says “Yes”, but is cut off and the upper part says “No” :')