• Plum@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    … did they adjust the data points to go from lowest to highest

    …so the chart go up?

    *I wrote down the data on a napkin and it makes more sense. These fuckers made a Bad Graph.

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        15 days ago

        Bad Graph says: 0.75% of 8 year olds were diagnosed in 2000 versus 3.2% in 2020.

        Correlation =/= causation.

        How have the diagnostic criteria changed in 20 years? Autism was a stigma when I was in high school in 2000, now it’s a spectrum. Are there routine screenings at pediatricians now?

        Number go up, but what else go up simultaneously?

        I hate it here.

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      14 days ago

      Each bar shows two years; years they surveyed the kids and the year the kids were born.

      So 2000|1992, is saying that kids born in 1992 were surveyed in 2000. If you look at tmit with thtmat perspective you can see it’s ordered by the year.