• 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    I am really dying to know what author of the graphic thought is advantage of such scale instead of -100 to 100…

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      3 days ago

      It’s probabilities. So they essentially talk about a range of decimal comma positions, from 0.01 to 100.0 or 1% to 10000%

      They could have used plain counts as well though. (Not sure about the visual gradient though, as I suppose these things are impacted by Zipfs law, etc.)