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by gus_massa 2099 days ago
In the physics lab the T.A. will yell at you if choose a scale that starts at zero instead of a scale that shows only the relevant section. When the T.A. is tired, he/she will ask another T.A. to continue the yelling. (Or sometimes just make you redo the report until you choose the correct scale.)

The research journal have a similar policy.

For some reason people in the Internet don't like it, so a solution for a blog post is to show both graphs. One that starts at zero and other with the relevant section.

1 comments

Rubbish. Sometimes it is appropriate to start from zero and sometimes it isn't.
At least we can agree that using a bar graph with an axis that is not at zero is a bad idea.