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Originally posted by nostatic
The plot is at best sloppy, at worst manipulative. Could be they only had data points for those years and they didn't understand the right way to scale the x axis. Or they wanted to emphasize the climb from 2001 to 2006 and give an incorrect slope. While people love to make their point, don't underestimate the cluelessness of people plotting data...
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Most likely, they wanted it shaped for presentation in the article, thus the uneven scale used. In academia, it's presupposed that if you use color in your graph, you're trying to confuse the data.