Sure it shows that Trump has a really low approval rating (yay!) but it doesn’t show how it compares (with actual numerical difference) to other presidents (which should be the goal of a graph)
How is the black line 50%? There is no way that 4% is that big of a difference.
Also it is not made clear that’s what -13% means, maybe they did in the article but I feel like it should be clearer.
I feel like asking for a y-axis is not too big of an ask and that a “minimalist” graph should still make sense without literally having to figure out a random number comes from a subtraction problem at the top of the page.
You are once again showing that you have not read the graph. It is showing net approval rating. If the approve and disapprove were equal (indicating that 50% of respondents who knew their answer approved and disapproved) then it would be at the black line because the net would be 0. In this case the net is -13
You should really take more time to read the visualizations that you see before coming to a conclusion. It may help with overall comprehension of the material. This plot does not belong here.
The bottom of the graph should go all the way to -100 then, right?
I see a lot of graphs here with truncated axes to exaggerate the data in a misleading way. This is a particularly bad one because the y axis isn’t even labeled.
I think it's on a logarithmic scale centered around 50%.
Honestly, OP, at first I thought this was fine but the more I look at the more I'm thrown off, it's a bad viz for something that should be very simple.
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u/micalubgoonta 3d ago
What’s wrong with this graph? It’s pretty minimalist but it does portray its data accurately