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by bunderbunder 2874 days ago
Obligatory bikeshedding:

It's really frustrating that, in the first two visualizations, whose only difference is that one shows data for women, and the other shows data for men, they chose to use two different color scales. It makes it difficult to compare between the two.

For example, if you weren't paying close attention to the scales, you might easily get the impression that a greater proportion of women than men smoke in France and Chile.

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There are all kinds of quirks and questionable decisions in this presentation. It's good data but I found myself doing a double take every other chart.
Yeah, at some point I learned to scale all related charts the same. Otherwise, confusion is too likely.
I read your comment, looked at the link, and made the same mistake before realizing what you had just said.