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How big is the oil market (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Since they're rendered to look like spheres are the numbers proportional to the area of the circle, or the volume of the sphere?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I've received the advice that you should always make your charts so that you numbers are proportional to a length, since people aren't good at comparing areas (or volumes).

So the numbers here probably ought to be proportional to diameters

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Area of circle