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There was an attempt at scale. (mander.xyz)
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[–] 78 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Logarithmically scaled image. I'll leave the determination of the base of the Log as an exercise for the viewer.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    That's what I thought, so I investigated.

    The base of the log can be accounted for by a constant scale factor, because, for example, if n is the number of bison,

    log10(n)
    = log10(e^ln(n))
    = ln(n) log10(e) and log10(e) is a constant.
    This change of base is a linear scale on the logs.

    Hence we can just take log 10 of the numbers of bison, and scale the answer by a constant factor which is log10(correct base), getting
    7.778, 2.477 and 4.477
    Scale that by about 2 = log10(100) to match the 5 bison in the middle pictogram, and there should be
    16, 5, 9 bison on a logarithmic scale.

    The diagram is also wrong if it's logarithmic.

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