• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Toyota is using four times less fuel than the Honda.

    Only if you didn’t read the figure. Which is the point. A car person would never make that mistake.

    And I promise, in figure making, we are almost always adjust axis to represent the range of the data. It would be ridiculous not to. It would be a waste of real-estate for any journal or paper. If you are writing a Science paper, you get 5 figures, total. You have to do as much with them as you can. There are plenty of times when we might only adjust in 1/2 of a dimension, but usual its the whole

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      2 hours ago

      Thanks for admitting that you make useless charts on which the reader has to read the figures anyway. Hopefully there comes a time when you realize you should’ve just used tables instead.