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notkevinjohn t1_izgjs3y wrote

Okay, I said what I came here to say. There is nothing special about the examples you selected. If a user encounters, for instance, a bar chart that's been truncated not to start at zero, it's no more likely that this has been done for legitimate reasons than it is that it's been done for illegitimate ones. Similarly, it's just as likely that a bar chart which begins at zero had it's axis selected to mislead about the data as it is that is has it starting at zero to accurately represent the data. Flagging one of those options as potentially misleading is itself a potentially misleading statement.

If you feel like you need to get the last word in here, feel free. I think I've presented the best form of my argument so I am done now.

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