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2023-10-29 10:46:43 UTC - HELPFUL
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The decrease pictured is about a 7% drop over 5 years (1.4% per year). This chart is using a nontraditional y-axis scaling in order to make the drop appear larger than it is. This is a tactic used in data visualization to misrepresent data and seemingly inflate numbers. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7419489/ https://www.lrs.org/2020/06/10/visualizing-data-manipulating-the-y-axis/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misleading_graph
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