Re:The public do not understand logarithmic graphs used to p...
by redis_mlc on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:02PM
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It's a good article - everybody should read it.
> The public do not understand logarithmic graphs used to portray Covid-19
- does the public include our leaders? Very likely.
- although I know what a log plot is, I didn't have an intuitive answer to the question posed in the article. So instead of informing people, it adds further confusion.
Related:
- the Santa Clara (Bay Area) hospitals dashboard is confusing and takes about 2 minutes to load, so another example of poor crisis communications - inexcusable in 2020:
> The public do not understand logarithmic graphs used to portray Covid-19
- does the public include our leaders? Very likely.
- although I know what a log plot is, I didn't have an intuitive answer to the question posed in the article. So instead of informing people, it adds further confusion.
Related:
- the Santa Clara (Bay Area) hospitals dashboard is confusing and takes about 2 minutes to load, so another example of poor crisis communications - inexcusable in 2020:
https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx#ho...
If anybody is familiar with that BI software, is there a way to cache it?