• Neato@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Why? It gives people a relatable size and shape to compare to. Like saying the 100 richest landowners own equivalent to Florida.

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      2 years ago

      I get that but it needs to be labeled some way to clarify this at least. A lot of people look at this and could easily think it is what each area has the most of and that the positions of the types of land have something to do with the states they are near or cover.

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        Agreed. I definitely thought that at first, thinking some of them seemed very off. Glad I read these comments. It’s especially confusing considering where some things are in the map that it seams almost believable for example that NY/NJ are made up mostly of mostly urban and commercial areas.

        But it is a good chart (not map) for what it’s intended to show with some perspective provided in proper labeling.

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        A lot of people sure keep saying “a lot of people” and getting mad at the graph instead of just laughing it off that they didn’t get it at first. It’s not the end of the world if you don’t immediately understand something.