Comment by BeetleB
4 days ago
Not at all, as long as it's labeled as such. Coming from engineering/science, this is common.
What is bad is starting at 0, showing an indicator of a gap, and suddenly starting at 30 or whatever after the gap.
4 days ago
Not at all, as long as it's labeled as such. Coming from engineering/science, this is common.
What is bad is starting at 0, showing an indicator of a gap, and suddenly starting at 30 or whatever after the gap.
It gives you a wrong perspective, especially if you are distracted, on model capabilities: Fable 5.1 is not 30% better than Sol, but is the very first impression you get when you look at the first graph.
If I'm not wrong OAI tried a similar trick when GPT5 was announced ... they have been criticized a lot.
> It gives you a wrong perspective, especially if you are distracted, on model capabilities
Only if you aren't schooled in reading graphs. It's a given that you always have to look at the axes when interpreting a graph.
How exactly would you zoom into a section of a graph and just show that section?
> Only if you aren't schooled in reading graphs ...
So we can say the same about the authors "AA’s plot is misleading" claim, he is "not schooled in reading graphs"?
> How exactly would you zoom into a section of a graph and just show that section?
When building a chart is good practice to provide log scale switch and zoom&pan capabilities, so the reader can decide how to look at it.
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Not starting at zero has long been used entirely intentionally in order to mislead people, particularly the general public.