I have a lot of very smart friends, like significantly higher than average in terms of degrees and technical jobs and standardized testing scores at least.
One of them purchased a game that is like Apples to Apples but the point is to provide labels or name the axis of a graph.
It was enlightening just how many of my friends that had a passing notion of calculus could not intuitively interpret what a graph actually means. For example, they would often misunderstand the relation between the dependent and independent variable, or not even understand what it meant for a variable to depend on another variable. Too bad too, because it was a really fun game for me.
Something I saw a smart IT manager do is produce graphs for the monthly board report without a legend, labels, or any numbers at all. Just lines, but not even grid lines.
His explanation was that nobody understood the numbers anyway, the graph is just there to be a pretty colourful picture while he talks.
One of them purchased a game that is like Apples to Apples but the point is to provide labels or name the axis of a graph.
It was enlightening just how many of my friends that had a passing notion of calculus could not intuitively interpret what a graph actually means. For example, they would often misunderstand the relation between the dependent and independent variable, or not even understand what it meant for a variable to depend on another variable. Too bad too, because it was a really fun game for me.