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Curious_Jellyfish_37 t1_j3l6pbd wrote

Good points except maybe the first - it looks like the chart is male athletes only? Just did a quick search... it's more likely that it's the difference between the unweighted and lightweight rowing (lightweight = weight-limited to 72.5kg for men). You can also see a blip for the coxswain (who tend to be about 55kg).

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the_original_Retro t1_j3l5suy wrote

Pro tip: the legend detracts from a good graph when it's simple and already labelled.

But interesting graph though. Here's how I'd break it down from my armchair.

  • Rowing is about pure raw strength and medium-term endurance. Makes sense that it's the heaviest. The separate bulges are likely men vs women, with a light person being the one that doesn't row but calls the strokes.
  • Taekwondo, I'm assuming, has competitive weight classes, explaining the distributions?
  • Triathlon people are all wiry, stringy muscle and little body fat so they don't have to carry a lot of personal weight for the many miles/kilometers of the competition.
  • Fencing's somewhere in the middle - some fitness, but strength is important.
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highcharts OP t1_j3l3sug wrote

A violin plot displays the 2012 Olympic male athletes’ weight of the following disciplines: taekwondo, rowing, triathlon, and fencing. The violin plot visualizes the distribution shape and the probability density (athletes’ weight) across each discipline compellingly and intuitively. Link to data, tool used Highcharts, and source topendsport. Check more about the subject in violin plot

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Composer-Fragrant t1_j3ktiu8 wrote

If you want to compare the size of their armies or reserve, you could do that without a time series, as a gross number or percentage of population. If you want to compare the development of fertility over time, potentially as a cause of events, as well as being able to compare this development between nations of different population, fertility rates is the way to go.

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Single_Astronaut_198 t1_j3ksh8v wrote

I've been needing this. Going from 2020s back to the 90s and what an awesome illustration of how much effort producers now forgo to make a quick buck. This is why so many people loved "Maverick". Remember how at any given time back in the 90's there was almost always a 5 star movie in theaters? ...And even the second and third rates were good most of the time.

Great movies in all these groups but it does pain me to see the progression of quality into quantity. C'mon 2020s, let's get our act together.

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Valyrian_Tinfoil t1_j3kmhmd wrote

This video logically defeats itself and forego’s the entire narrative of the Bible that they’re mocking for the sake of repeating the phrase “finely tuned”.

“The universe and most of the planet can’t support life.” then proceeds to show a plant growing out of a crack in the sidewalk…

Also, the vid is called Atheism Comedy, but it had zero humor in it lmao—mockery is just insulting if it’s not funny, not matter how “intellectual” you think the veneer of said mocking is.

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