Truncated Y-Axis Debate
Is truncating the Y–axis dishonest? 100 98 96 94 92 Percent of respondents NO YES
A bar chart asks whether truncating the Y-axis is dishonest, showing a red “NO” section above a blue “YES” section. The joke is that the chart itself uses a dramatically truncated axis to make the difference look much larger, undermining its claim that truncation is not dishonest.
- @threedotssavetogallery / 7420 2026-02-10
- Type
- image
- Size
- 600×600 · 21.6 KiB
- Mood
- sarcastic
- Language
- en
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