To: Crimson Elephant
Not my field of expertise, but I think that is a bad graph. The bottom half of the vertical height shows how the DJIA got up to "1000". The top half of the vertical height shows how the DJIA got to "14000".
Adjusting the scale that way seems like a good way to tell the story that you want to tell.
7 posted on
09/19/2008 9:54:10 AM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(Michelle, spare me your phony outrage, you know as well as I do that dress makes your butt look big)
To: ClearCase_guy; Crimson Elephant
The graph is logarithmic. You see these commonly with financial and earthquake charts. Ironic? :-)
14 posted on
09/19/2008 10:02:27 AM PDT by
FreeAtlanta
(NOBAMA - it is for our future)
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