BroadElderberry

BroadElderberry t1_j4hnr86 wrote

I think it does. It gives average times spent on certain activities for people aged 15-64 across several countries. As long as you understand what each of the bolded phrases mean and the influence they have on the outcome, it's a very useful and interesting graph.

There's a reason statistics is an entire field. Making assumptions or expecting a graph to say something it isn't is super easy to do.

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BroadElderberry t1_j4e3fe5 wrote

You can go down that rabbit hole for years. Unemployment rates in each country will also skew numbers. So can social security/retirement qualifications. For an analysis like this, you have to pick a range, and you have to apply it equally against all test subjects (in this case, countries).

I'd guess they made their choice based on a calculated averages of starting/stopping work.

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BroadElderberry t1_j4b71p7 wrote

I mean, that's how averages work. They're one view of the data, that includes the extreme values. They aren't a complete picture, but they have their value.

In this chart, the exact values aren't what's being showcased, it's more how values compare between countries.

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