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No offence, but User:Nectarflowed created this chart backwards ! Any college student who has studied media display would tell you the colors are exactly backwards. To present information which have one information overlying some of another information, you have your larger, first seen information presented in a lighter, more transparent coloration. Instead of yellow, green, red, purple (as presently stands) the chart colors should reverse to purple, red, green, yellow. The reason for this is that the dark purple color holds the eye and doesn't let the viewer look through it to the other information presented. While, if the colors are reversed in order, a viewer could look at and assimilate the information presented by the light yellow color and then move on to the information presented by the green color and so on. All of the information would be visible. Terryeo 21:25, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

My work on this clarified the right tail of an existing image (now deleted) in response to concerns that were raised that it wasn't clear enough. The present image does present all of the information visibly, though esthetics can always be improved.--Nectar 09:35, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Well, yeah. The information is there. But the information is not very easily viewed because the darkest color which is the rightmost color, overlies all the other information. A person has to work at it, in order to get the rest of the information. A better method would be to reverse the color order. Terryeo 10:03, 29 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Concerns

  • I'd rather see a chart that uses raw data instead of the normal curves fitted to the raw data. I think that would be more informative and would reduce the impression that the data are determined by perfect normal curves.(as opposed to the data fitting normal curves closely)

* Where is the y axis?

I looked at the links in caption, but I can't find Gottfredson 2006 on the footnotes page. So I need to know:

  • How many people are in the sample set?
  • When was the data collected? By whom?futurebird 11:06, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Never mind about those last two questions I found the source. futurebird 11:35, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please address concerns about this image here

Talk:Race_and_intelligence#Delete_Graphic.3F

So that conversation won't get split up. futurebird 20:51, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

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