@Contramuffin yes, agreed. And thank for the perspective on the birth rate.

@[email protected] @europesays @[email protected] @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.

@[email protected] @europesays @[email protected] @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 ?