UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoIrish Journalist Excellencelemmy.worldimagemessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1414arrow-down16
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minus-squareArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·1 month agoThe Y axis is the absolute number of medals and the labels for each data point are relative rankings. If one country got all the medals except one and Ireland got that one remaining medal, there would be a data point at Y=1 with the label “2nd”.
minus-squarewolfpack86@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoYeah but it’s not. At all. They’ve beent taking single digit medals.
minus-squareTrex202@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·edit-21 month agoThat theory might work if the data point labels didn’t directly correspond with the Y axis labels.
The Y axis is the absolute number of medals and the labels for each data point are relative rankings. If one country got all the medals except one and Ireland got that one remaining medal, there would be a data point at Y=1 with the label “2nd”.
Yeah but it’s not. At all.
They’ve beent taking single digit medals.
That theory might work if the data point labels didn’t directly correspond with the Y axis labels.