Hey, you might be right! I’ll take this as useful feedback that the argument wasn’t fully convincing. Don’t mean to pull a motte-and-bailey, but I suppose if I had to, I’d retreat to an argument like, “if making a plot, consider using these rules as one option for how to pick axes.” In any case, if you have any examples where you think following this advice leads to bad choices, I’d be interested to hear them.
When I looked at your proposed GDP-Time chart, I felt I was more inclined to treat the year as quantitative and the amounts as categorical. Though I don’t know how that would actually play out if I were trying to make use of it in anger.
Hey, you might be right! I’ll take this as useful feedback that the argument wasn’t fully convincing. Don’t mean to pull a motte-and-bailey, but I suppose if I had to, I’d retreat to an argument like, “if making a plot, consider using these rules as one option for how to pick axes.” In any case, if you have any examples where you think following this advice leads to bad choices, I’d be interested to hear them.
When I looked at your proposed GDP-Time chart, I felt I was more inclined to treat the year as quantitative and the amounts as categorical. Though I don’t know how that would actually play out if I were trying to make use of it in anger.