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New gender gap (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This data is anything but beautiful. Its horrendously laid out. Not intuitive in the slightest.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's on purpose. It's a conservative opinion piece.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Aha, that explains the weird positioning of the zero axis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

If only there was a way to talk about political ideology that indicated some kind of direction, then we could orient the data in such a way that the arrows went in the direction of that ideology.