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0.1% to 99.9% graphed, A new way of seeing data, Log-Percentage chart, Logarithmic-Percentage chart
Presented below is a blank chart which will represent graphic data more clearly when values are expressed in percentages. The problem with a typical linear presentation of percentage data is that values that are close to zero or one hundred percent are compressed and do not display their relative importance clearly. The charting method I developed this week corrects this problem by making the data logarithmic. Some logarithmic data presented in a chart form deals with information which accelerates as it departs from some starting point and decelerates as it approaches some limit. The Log-Percentage graphing chart copes with these problems by flipping the logarithmic representation at the fifty percent line. Some types of information tend to form an S curve as they go from a low value to a high value but it is difficult to see irregularities in the curve. This new chart will result in a straight line instead of an S curve to highlight those kinds of irregularities and that is its potential value.
Logarithmic-Percentage chart reversed at fifty percent. Click for big view.
When you see information more clearly it becomes more useful.
Is this a question of moral values and an indicator for the future…what our children have to look forward to?
Helmut Taylor in Frankfurt.
By the way…do you read my responses to your postings?
Yes I do read them, but you ask me to do things which are outside of my goal for this blog. I have been seeking general solutions to problems which affect everyone and generally avoid specific problems affecting only individuals or even individual groups.
Glad to know the lines are open. What Dodd found out about the aims and actions of the foundations can hardly be called “fringe”, “niche” -or to affect only individuals or groups…fomenting wars and striving to establish an elite to rule the world is pretty much of interest..to just about anybody and everybody on this planet (who can read and write).
Thankyou for your reply.
Thank You Helmut for linking to the video but the control of the educational system has gone much further than was feared in that conversation. Read – Charles Murray’s new book Coming Apart which documents the concentration of our best minds into a highly centralized and layered educational system using Schoolastic Aptitude Tests (SAT). Harvard Law School now totally dominates US political action.
Well, that’s a turn up for the books!
I haven’t had a chance to read the book you mention – yet. Can the “minds”, the people who are driving this train of thought, this philosophy be identified? I wouldn’t be against dicscussing the subject; I’d like to know the rationale behind this idea. The guys who started this so long ago are obviously gone now….but what has kept the idea alive? Don’t forget you can contact me via email direct at: “taetter@web.de”.
Regards,
Helmut Taylor.
It was when I was writing about Charles Murray’s new book Coming Apart that I realized the standard visualization of percentage material in graphic form was flawed. Thus I created these Log-Percentage flipped at 50% charts. The current one is more carefully drawn than the hand drawn one a few days ago and goes from 0.1% to 99.9% but it is applicable to many things other than the unwed mothers problem.
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