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bosschucker t1_izkebe4 wrote

I don't really love this example tbh. look at where the lines cross at 82.5% - what does that tell you? the viz is clearly saying that there is some significance to 82.5% of workers being full time by nature of having that be where the lines meet - but what does it actually mean? you could move the axes so that the lines cross at whatever arbitrary point you want. if your viz is going to imply that a certain data point is significant, I think it actually should be

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bosschucker t1_izg17rg wrote

I have to disagree with #2. I'm a fan of this blog post by datawrapper, which features this graphic (and has more arguments against dual axis charts besides being misleading). you can manipulate the axes to show literally any correlation that you want, which is a pretty fatal flaw imo for any data visualization

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