Not an Ad: Was scrolling through the sub and saw this advert which clearly doesn't understand bar charts... or irony.
Posted Dec 23, 2021, 9:07 AM UTC
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Have you checked out r/dataisugly?
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Not really badmath. This is more like bad presentation.
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Bad presentation of mathematics is also bad mathematics, especially if that presentation is purposefully misleading.
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I would agree if this were a misleading presentation of some substantive mathematical content. But this is just a graphic misrepresenting how much smaller 40 is than 150. It’s bad graphic design that happens to involve some numbers.
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Pie charts that aren't drawn to scale
Not a bad mathematics. You should visit r/dataisugly
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It’s not bad math, its just a non-linear scale on a chart. Just misleading.
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This equation is algebraically undeniably and irrefutably true. But since it hasn't been sanctioned as yet by your "mentors" you would probably deem it false.
Here's a snapshot of the linked page.
^^Quote ^^| ^^Source ^^| ^^Go ^^vegan ^^| ^^Stop ^^funding ^^animal ^^exploitation
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What would someone be proud that their students get to work at Google or Amazon?
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R4: This is a bar chart allegedly demonstrating career prospects for students of a particular programme. The bar chart heavily implies that 40 is more than half of 150. It is not.
Extra Irony: the ad popped up for me while I was browsing this subreddit and I took some time to realise it hadn't been deliberately posted here. Also claims to have approval from r/dataisbeautiful which just worries me further.
Solid anti-advert for me.
May be on some logarithmic scale ?
That's what I was thinking. 6 is about 1/2 the size of 12 which is about 1/2 the size of the 28, etc
Ah yes, ratios, the natural way to represent numbers of people.
Nah, look at the gap between 28 and 40 vs 40 and 55 (or even 43-46 vs 46-55). Obviously they shouldn't be exactly the same, but the difference is way too big.
This shit doesn’t even belong on a bar chart anyway.
Even if they adjusted the scale of the bars to correctly represent the numbers in relation to each other, these numbers and bars don't make any sense in the first place. What do they represent? What is "150 Google"? Absolute number of people from how many graduate? It's really just a clickbaity scam ad, regardless of the quality of their school.
Since r/DataIsBeautiful got a big hike in subscribers it turned into ‘r/literallyanythingwithdata’ tbh. No quality control any more.
Same thing happened to r/mapporn. The stuff posted there isn’t even in high-res images any more, let alone accurate maps.