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by KarlKemp
1653 days ago
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No, the media just happens to sometimes share OP’s intend: to show a (small) absolute change. That change may or may not be as dramatic as the graph suggests in both visualizations: measured in Kelvin, your body temperature increasing by 8 K looks like a tiny bump when you anchor it at absolute zero. “You” being the generic “you”, because at 47 deg C body temperature, the other you is dead. It will be visible if you work in Celsius, a unit that is essentially a cut-off Y axis to better fit the origin within the domains we use it for. |
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We have an intuitive sense of what 30 degrees is, assuming it is in our preferred system of measurement.
A stock market graph really should be showing the percentage change, not some small absolute change that it’s not immediately understood by the typical layperson.