Honestly, why not just a simple line plot? Maybe with a log scale on the y axis. This seems like an overly complicated way to display very simple data

Quality vs quantity though. And I say that as an Argentine.

I was thinking the same, but then got to thinking. This group is likely to have the highest ratio of debt to income so that would be bad. But then again they are also likely to be the group most likely to default and be in bankruptcy for one of MANY reason so maybe it doesn't even matter that they are carrying student debt? There are so many different ways to look at this data and extrapolate the meaning.

My guess, is this is likely: 1. The group who took on HUGE predatory private loans and 2. dropped out and didn't finish college so was a total waste even taking on that debt in the first place.

The 2007-09 era was pretty much where the whole distrust about Wikipedia came from. I remember my CS professor pulling up a similar chart and explaining how it was ok for us to now use and trust Wikipedia so long as we just double check the wording and sources.

Also explained how the old days of Wikipedia were like the Wild West and the ability to edit so easily in those early days lead to mass abuse of the system and a massive academic mistrust.

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What if that's really relevant to Johnny's page?

Random Wikipedia related incident

One of my friends pointed out to our chemistry professor once, that his slides were word for word from that topics Wikipedia page (with a slight tone of "did you plagiarize that") to which the professor responded, that he wrote the Wikipedia article.

My language is quite minor, so I think it's cool that university professors try to make their topic more approachable by creating easy access material in other languages than e.g., English, as well.

Also, this graph makes it look like Argentina is the biggest cheese producer, but they're behind small countries like the Netherlands and Denmark. (the higher producing countries are mentioned by an arrow in the graph).

Ah, yes, the famous Venezuelan Beaver Cheese

Found the Catan player

Doesn’t have to be linear. But if edits go up as content goes up and edits go down as content goes UP (I don’t think it’s defensible to say that Wikipedia shrank), then there isn’t a meaningful correlation.

So if edits go up, then content must have gone up, but if edits goes down, then content … goes up?

You have the causal relationship the wrong way round - they are saying more content results in more edits, but that doesn't mean fewer edits means less content

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What's a LatAm cheese I should try

I'll gladly trade argentinian/venezuelan one for the swiss one with 4:1 exchange ratio, though.

I mean, Swiss population is 8.7 million; Venezuela is 28.2 million; Argentina is 45.8 million, and Mexico is 126.7 million... So the tonnes per person in Switzerland is (very roughly guessed from looking at the post) more than twice that of Argentina and Venezuela, and something like 20x that of Mexico

> Students at College ‘B’ do not know about Wikipedia.

This sentence and every sentence after it are extremely unrealistic.

Wikipedia was already one of the top most popular websites in the world before any of this, and there is just no reason at all that Facebook would be a significant vector of spreading wikipedia.

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Its not about quantity but quality, mates.

Just proves the early 00s was a great time except obviously 9/11

At first I thought this was in a cross stitch sub - honestly, it would be a great little nerdy abstract cross stitch project to mystify people with!

March Madness

Not really surprising. Swiss cheese is full of holes.

from our newsletter:

Of all places, Venezuela has been on a cheese revolution since the beginning of this century, producing in 2020 3x the amount it did in 2000. We were thrilled to see that the country with usually the most troubling news in the region is actually LatAm's 2nd largest cheese producer and surpassed Switzerland (the cheese homeland) in production for the first time in 2009.

Source: OWID

Tools: Affinity Designer, Rawgraphs