Another priceless infographic from the Times ...

david's picture
Submitted by david on Fri, 01/21/2011 - 15:34

After their previous attempt at a Nightingale rose, here is another ghastly example from today's edition of the Times. Shouldn't someone tell them?


Perhaps Japan's acceptance rate looks more than twice the size of China's

Free tags: 
infographic
Levels: 
level 1

Comments

Anonymous's picture

Anonymous (not verified)

Fri, 01/21/2011 - 16:26

it looks, and measures, twice the size. (Increased the image size x2 in PPT and it matches almost exactly).
Anonymous's picture

Anonymous (not verified)

Fri, 01/21/2011 - 23:23

How many dimensions? Double the height of a 2d image and you square its area. If it's an image of a 3d object you cube the volume. So if you mean that a is twice b, but you portray it as a 2d image or 3d object simply doubling the linear dimentions you imply that be is 4 or 8 times a. Which is, no doubt, what David is referring to...