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Matrozi t1_izg1d4l wrote

Reply to comment by IONIXU22 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

You see it a lot on scientific papers, it was more common before but you do still have a few papers that come out with a badly scaled Y axis to insist on the difference between group A and group B.

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good_research t1_izg86w8 wrote

In scientific papers they'll generally have some measure of variance, and a readership that knows how to interpret it.

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bippidyboppidyboo4u t1_izgd8aq wrote

You didn’t answer their question: they asked about zero as the baseline.

What’s so special about zero?

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