Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway

rirus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  if you look at it for 1s it looks scary. if you look at it for 2s it doesn’t make any fucking sense like, at all

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• vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Main problem is that its not really an axis at all.

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  • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe what’s important is the axis we made along the way

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• atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it’s birth cohorts

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think it’s just the number of diagnoses made in that particular year. But it doesn’t matter because we know this graph is made up anyway. It’s a Trump administration putting it out, I bet not one of them knows how to get excel to output a bar chart, so instead it’s just random rectangles they’ve drawn.

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    • atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean there is scientifically a rise in autism diagnoses, but it’s like explained by awareness and decreased criteria to qualify as being on the spectrum - not by an increase in actual autism.

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