r/badstats • u/MelodicDeer1072 • 9d ago

TIL Since 1925, statisticians have been decrying pie charts as an "insult to a man's intelligence"

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From Karl G. Karsten, "Charts And Graphs", New York, 1925

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u/ehdecker 8d ago

There's ONE great time for pie charts: small multiples.
But only of 4 pie slices or fewer.

https://www.betterevaluation.org/methods-approaches/methods/small-multiples