Some graphs make me sad

[andrewducker]

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[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

Turkey is an outlier too, the line should go through Bulgaria instead.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

i thought that

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

I don't know why they chose the formula they did ( y = A(1-B/x) ), unless they really wanted to keep Turkey in the graph.

A straight line would have been easier...

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

or, you know, a big oval, which is what it is.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yup. Discard Turkey *and* the USA as outliers and you've got a straight line with a fair-but-explainable bit of noise.

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

a line implies movement though, and I think such an implication is incorrect. There's nothing making countries more rich and scientific.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

True. Might as well have no line at all, and simply point out that more science correlates with more money in all but one case - and that one case is 0.1% of it's population away from being somwhere to the left of Turkey.

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

yes we are definitely exceptional in many wonderful and horrible ways