The Abundance Illusion

Re:The Abundance Illusion by phainopepla2 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @05:07PM (#48482725)

And to top it off both Y axes have the exact same label. The graph has no indication as to which line belongs to which axis. Of course, we can easily infer which is which from the surrounding article, but still... terrible data visualization

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Re:The Abundance Illusion by strfry on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @05:18PM (#48482858)

I thought the same thing about matching the line to the axis, but the legend is marked with LHS and RHS. It's very subtle.

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Re:The Abundance Illusion by phainopepla2 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @05:31PM (#48482998)

Ah, missed that. Well, I think the point remains that it's an abominable and misleading graph

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Re:The Abundance Illusion by evilsmurf on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @06:32PM (#48483678)

Different scales between the left and right sides as well. The vertical distance for 500k bpd on the left is about half of the right.

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