(This article was originally published at Junk Charts, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.)
In a comment to the previous post, Evan pointed to this Washington Post graphic: (link to article)
This chart doesn't render properly in Firefox, nor in Safari. But we can see the designer's intention. It has an added dimension of gender.
This wasn't the chart that caught my eye before. The one I saw has the shades of blue that I used - I basically used the same design with a different set of data.
The chart above can be deconstructed in a similar fashion. It represents a set of collapsed histograms - two histograms, one for each gender, on each row. In other words:
I don't think adding the gender variable adds much to the chart. (Note: the dataset I used did not have gender. I assigned gender randomly for illustrative purposes.)
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