Saturday, October 27, 2007

Re: [BLUG] NOV meeting topic

Quoting Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org>:

> I really hate graphs without scales, they tell me absolutely nothing.
> For all I know that could mean that the sea level will rise an inch in
> the next 1000 years and the temperature will rise 1 degree before
> stabilizing.
>
> I know that they are just trying to get a concept across but to me,
> but a good indicator that someone is hiding something in a graph is when
> they omit a scale.

In case anyone's interested, here's something more detailed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/629/629/6528979.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/06_04_05_climate.pdf


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