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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 month agoThe Y axis is the absolute number of medals and the labels for each data point are relative rankings. If one country got all the medals except one and Ireland got that one remaining medal, there would be a data point at Y=1 with the label “2nd”.
minus-square@Trex202link15•edit-21 month agoThat theory might work if the data point labels didn’t directly correspond with the Y axis labels.
minus-square@wolfpack86link1•1 month agoYeah but it’s not. At all. They’ve beent taking single digit medals.
The Y axis is the absolute number of medals and the labels for each data point are relative rankings. If one country got all the medals except one and Ireland got that one remaining medal, there would be a data point at Y=1 with the label “2nd”.
That theory might work if the data point labels didn’t directly correspond with the Y axis labels.
Yeah but it’s not. At all.
They’ve beent taking single digit medals.