Everyone's talking about "correlation vs. causation" but I'm pretty sure the page explicitly states that that's not what this is about:
> if its axes are chosen unwisely
The graph is misleading because it makes it look like the transistor count and the life expectancy grow at the exact same rate. It pretends there's a linear correlation. And that's the misleading part.
> if its axes are chosen unwisely
The graph is misleading because it makes it look like the transistor count and the life expectancy grow at the exact same rate. It pretends there's a linear correlation. And that's the misleading part.