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spiral8888 t1_izi3wng wrote

Reply to comment by Skulltown_Jelly in [OC] How to spot misleading charts? I would like to hear your opinion on the subject, also any tips design-wise? by dark_o3

Two things. First, the stock prices are a bit like temperature in a sense that the absolute value of the share price has very little meaning. The share price of $10/share doesn't really tell you anything. It only tells you something in relation to the past.

Second, the relative change of the share price does matter. So, 50% drop in price is a different thing than a 1% drop. If you suppress the zero, they look the same on the graph.

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