• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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    7 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

    • tweeks@feddit.nl
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      7 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.

      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Women literally never commit suicide at the same rate or less, that’s kind of the point.

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          7 months ago

          Ok, but if you (me) didn’t know that coming into this, you’d be confused why it only scaled one way. I would’ve figured there’s at least some parts of the world where women had higher rates than men.

          • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            7 months ago

            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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        7 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?

        • Conyak@lemmy.tf
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          7 months ago

          It does but if it was good it wouldn’t need an explanation.

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            7 months ago

            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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                7 months ago

                I agree with the OP. You’re bad at reading graphs, unfortunately

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                  7 months ago

                  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.