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Re:Homo naledi was chipping its teeth amazingly often by pjvandehaar on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @03:47PM (#14555501)
I agree that a stacked bar graph would be nice, since the focus is on the per-species total across all 8 tooth types.

Could you explain why a line graph is bad for a discrete but ordered variable, like [Molars - Premolars - Canines - Incisors]?

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Re:Homo naledi was chipping its teeth amazingly often by benchaney on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @10:21PM (#14557493)
In this case a line graph is bad because the line doesn't mean anything. It implies an extrapolation that doesn't actually exist.
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