Why Do We Hate Pie Charts?
A pie chart of reasons to hate pie charts whose percentages add to 174%, illustrating its own last complaint.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2021-01-01-why-do-we-hate-pie-charts/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[Title] "Why do we hate pie charts?" [Pie chart] false promise of pie: 89% · human brain struggles to compare angle sizes: 41% · bulky, inefficient layout requires longer to interpret: 32% · misapplied to scenarios that don't involve dividing a fixed whole into percentages that sum to 100%: 12%