riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It bothers me that the graphic lists red-then-blue but there text lists blue-then-red. It’s inconsistent to how we read the information and makes it confusing to process.
…like gerrymandering
this assumes a left to right interpretation which is not universal, the graphic in a sense is not absolutely red then blue
the text could be positioned left and right like the graphic does, but I found it natural to list the larger number first and the smaller second - so not everyone feels the same as you about the graphic being confusing
this assumes a left to right interpretation which is not universal
While this is true, the graphic is in English using the Latin script. The Latin script is, as you might know, a left to right script which triggers a left to right interpretation of the whole thing.
Honestly, it didn’t trigger me at all but it would be more logical to also put the bigger color first (read: on the left)
agreed, I think the reasoning makes sense given that context 😄
Thanks, I like being right on the internet
Yeah, it’s written in English, which is read left to right.
Thanks fot adding context to my comment
gerrymandering goes both ways: it can make a majority a total victory, and a minority also a victory… i think building up is a good way of displaying that: you can go from a representative minority to a total win, and a representative minority to a total loss depending on how you draw the lines
Where text lists blue-then-red?
In the image attached to the post.
piecat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They listed the majority first. That’s all they did here.