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Re:The rule says, “No vehicles in the park” by RheingoldRiver on Saturday June 24, 2023 @02:34AM (#36456165)
What, exactly, is the graph showing? % of people who said "Yes this is a vehicle in the park" or % of people who agree with you ? It's very difficult to tell as I said yes only to the car and the memorial...
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Re:The rule says, “No vehicles in the park” by gorgoiler on Saturday June 24, 2023 @03:08AM (#36456331)
Your first interpretation is correct. No one thinks a kite is a vehicle. Everyone thinks a private car is a vehicle. Everything else is in between.

If your answers were consistent with a consistent population, there would be a threshold above which all your bars turn red. Any churn in that consistency (my last six bars are a mixture of red and green) shows a deviation of some kind, but I don’t know how this accounts for scenarios where no one agrees with anyone else.

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Re:The rule says, “No vehicles in the park” by RheingoldRiver on Saturday June 24, 2023 @03:27AM (#36456416)
I see. This graph is pretty confusing imo. My first idea for a visualization is to use a stacked bar chart that always adds up to 100% with "No it's not a vehicle" above "Yes it is a vehicle." Use 4 colors, dark red, light red, dark green, light green, and emphasize your choices with the dark ones.

Add a couple checkboxes with interactivity:

- Show only "Is vehicle" bars

- Show only "Is not vehicle" bars

- Show only answers that agreed with me

- Show only answers that disagreed with me

And a "toggle colorblind mode" although I'm not sure what colors would be ideal for that.

Any other ideas for how to make this thing actually readable?

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