• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Why? The red and orange are close in color, otherwise it shows if it is green in color, more women commit suicide than men, then the ratio goes up by color

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        8 months ago

        If it is green then they have the same average right? 1:1. But in this graph it would be difficult to show when more women committed suicide, which might nowhere be the case.

        Or you’d get 0.5 with a color match, for example.

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              The numbers, right there on the bar, and the text at the top of the image.

              “male to female suicide ratio” and then the numbers 1-10, it even explains that it’s (men’s suicides / women’s suicides) so anyone who doesn’t know what a ratio is can enjoy as well

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          8 months ago
          • 1: same number of men and women
          • 2: twice as many men, as women
          • 3: three times as many… Etc
          • x: x times as many men

          Does this help?

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              The title explains it… If it isn’t clear by that, it explains what that means in the text below. That my explanation was necessary is not really the fault of the infographic

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                    Apparently I’m not the only one since this thread was started by someone else who was confused. And should you have to be good at reading graphs to understand one? They should present the information in a clear easy to understand manner. This failed at that.