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Re: st: Re: Histogram % sign
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Ronan Conroy <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Re: Histogram % sign
Date
Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:00:45 +0000
On 2013 Meith 11, at 08:04, Nick Cox wrote:
> Even for groups of readers under age 7 or senior executives, should
> not be mentioning percent, percentage or % once somewhere be enough?
> Nick
No. I don't like the idea that a person reads a number – 42, for example – but has to have read text somewhere else that tells him the units. I am in favour of currency symbols, degree symbols and, yes, percentages.
I suggest that the space that needs to be saved is in the use of too many value labels on axes.
De gustibus, et pariter de formis, semper disputandum.
Ronán Conroy
[email protected]
Associate Professor
Division of Population Health Sciences
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Beaux Lane House
Dublin 2
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