It's just an inverse of what we expect but usable to highlight a single data point.
Making him closer to 0,0 as a data point would make it difficult to highlight him being above the rest for the average statistics reader(farthest object to the right is stronger). So you just flip the graph along the y axis with a shift left approach and you end up with what we see.
This is only useful when doing fast means less time.
Ryuzaki_us t1_iray6md wrote
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It's just an inverse of what we expect but usable to highlight a single data point.
Making him closer to 0,0 as a data point would make it difficult to highlight him being above the rest for the average statistics reader(farthest object to the right is stronger). So you just flip the graph along the y axis with a shift left approach and you end up with what we see.
This is only useful when doing fast means less time.