October 30, 2013

Evils of axis

From NPR News, a story on the rise of electric bikes. With some unfortunate graphs.

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Or, on the same axes

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »

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    If I had to guess what the trajectories of these two quantities would be, I would have guessed something very similar to the last graph.

    Btw electric bikes are fun and useful. :)

    11 years ago