Graphs are a form of communication, and it is a communicators job to try and limit the potential for major misunderstandings just as much as it is the responsibility of those who receive a communication to try and interpret it accurately.
Separately, no choice of range for data is agnostic/default, so choosing to fit the data in a way that excludes zero when excluding zero distorts the graphs meaning is a form of misrepresentation on the graph makers part, even if it was not a conscious or malicious decision. “The range is always fitted to data” is not an excuse for a misleading design.
NicobulusIsMyDog t1_iqv7ag1 wrote
Reply to comment by r2k-in-the-vortex in [OC] Supersonic Inefficiency: Why the Concorde Was Decommissioned by haboo213
Graphs are a form of communication, and it is a communicators job to try and limit the potential for major misunderstandings just as much as it is the responsibility of those who receive a communication to try and interpret it accurately.
Separately, no choice of range for data is agnostic/default, so choosing to fit the data in a way that excludes zero when excluding zero distorts the graphs meaning is a form of misrepresentation on the graph makers part, even if it was not a conscious or malicious decision. “The range is always fitted to data” is not an excuse for a misleading design.