03-27-2011, 07:44 AM
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Nothing unscientific about bar charts, or cutting axes.
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Both alone are of course ok. But the combination of bar charts and a cutted axis is debatable. Because only in a bar chart you visually perceive the area of a bar as the data at this point, which is misleading with a cutted axis.
I agree that this is not a scientific journal, but then you have to take care here even more, when people tend to take a first glance at the figures only and do not look at the numbers to judge performance of a lens.
Nothing unscientific about bar charts, or cutting axes.
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Both alone are of course ok. But the combination of bar charts and a cutted axis is debatable. Because only in a bar chart you visually perceive the area of a bar as the data at this point, which is misleading with a cutted axis.
I agree that this is not a scientific journal, but then you have to take care here even more, when people tend to take a first glance at the figures only and do not look at the numbers to judge performance of a lens.