@Contramuffin yes, agreed. And thank for the perspective on the birth rate.
@LabPlot@floss.social @europesays @labplot@lemmy.kde.social @dataisbeautiful very nicely framed but unconvincing. I can reverse the argument and call it sophistry. Data visualisation inherently conveys a message and you can't avoid having to choose what you want to say. Besides most data has a confidence level so at some point by blindly applying this "principle" you're just showing noise.
@LabPlot@floss.social @europesays @labplot@lemmy.kde.social @dataisbeautiful what about starting the y axis at 0 so you don't give the wrong impression that it's widely moving from year to year ?