Re:Tech Jobs Leaving California
by SushiHippie on Friday May 10, 2024 @08:13AM
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Do I understand the graph correctly that the share of tech jobs in california fell from ~10.5% to ~8.7% while in the same time it 'rose' from ~7.3% to ~7.7% in Texas? Or how are the two different Y Axis supposed to be interpreted?
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Re:Tech Jobs Leaving California
by bburnett44 on Friday May 10, 2024 @08:19AM
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My guess is Californias percentage is on the left and Texas is right. So california went from 20.5ish to 16ish
It's not you, it's a bad graph for several reasons: The Y axes are not anchored at zero, a tactic used to exaggerate small changes (and noise). The Y axes do not start in the same place, and are not even on the same scale, meaning there is no actual (visual) relation between the two sets of data.
This is graph is basically How to Lie with Statistics 101. The author seems to be trying to show a correlation where one might not exist.
(Edit: There is also a footnote saying that they're lumping in movie-making, music recording, and television/radio broadcasting into their definition of "tech." Further reason to not really take this seriously.)