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    8 days ago

    Heights are potentially a good example of that. Iirc, the standard deviation of height is only about 3 inches (for women), so doing the full y-axis would make small differences between groups impossible to visually compare.

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      8 days ago

      If these women have such similar heights, what on earth is the point in showing the differences between them so misleadingly starkly?