Guess what the Graph Shows!

[Мастер]

Is the y-axis age?

That was my thought. My next thought was that maybe the x-axis is income, but that thought only lasted a second or two.

[Lance]

Is the y-axis age?

No sir.

That was my thought. My next thought was that maybe the x-axis is income, but that thought only lasted a second or two.

Nothing to do with age. Nothing to do with income. Nothing financial at all.

[Lance]

It has to do with getting high.

[Heid the Ba]

So we have a graph that starts at about 7 on the y and about 18k on the x.

[Lance]

Yes.

And 0 on the X axis = 1 on the Y axis. As X increases linearly, Y increases in multiples.

[Lance]

So we have a graph that starts at about 7 on the y and about 18k on the x.

Okay, you get 7x more at 18K, 9x more at 23K, 14x more at 28K, 57x more at 41K, etc.

[Arneb]

Is the y-axis a risk ratio, eg for a health condition, like, 57 times the background risk of lung cancer after inhaling 41k cigarettes?

[Lance]

Interesting, but no.

Remember my earlier clue? It has to do with getting high.

[Lance]

The unit of measure of the X axis is feet.

[Мастер]

Does it specifically measure altitude?

[Lance]

It does. (getting high)

[Мастер]

Does it perchance have anything to do with aeroplanes?

[Lance]

Yup

[Heid the Ba]

Exposure to radiation increasing as altitude increases? Which could be dubbed the Enzo - Mactep scale running from radiation free to glow-in-the-dark.*


*if my recollection that Enzo hasn't flown in decades is correct.

[Arneb]

Careful, Icarus - if you get this one correct, you'll HAVE to propose a graph of your own this time...

[Lance]

Exposure to radiation increasing as altitude increases? Which could be dubbed the Enzo - Mactep scale running from radiation free to glow-in-the-dark.*


*if my recollection that Enzo hasn't flown in decades is correct.

And he SWOOPS in for the win!

Careful, Icarus - if you get this one correct, you'll HAVE to propose a graph of your own this time...

Yeah heid, your turn.

[Мастер]

Exposure to radiation increasing as altitude increases? Which could be dubbed the Enzo - Mactep scale running from radiation free to glow-in-the-dark.*


*if my recollection that Enzo hasn't flown in decades is correct.

I spit out the radiation.

[Arneb]

Not to rain in on anyone's party, but IIRC, a transatlantic flight is about as much radiation expusure as a chest x-ray, and if you've got one CT of a large body region, that's equivalent to a frequent flyer account on any airline, crappy or not.

NOW I look forward to seeing Heid's graph. How about yearly income vs. percentage of successful court cases in Scottish lawyers?

[Lance]

Nothing to guess, just amusing.

[Мастер]

[Heid the Ba]

So we change from red to blue in 1992, about the same time the graph plateaus, and the prediction is that it will continue to fall. Welcome to "State the obvious Friday, with Heid the Ba'".

[Мастер]

So we change from red to blue in 1992, about the same time the graph plateaus, and the prediction is that it will continue to fall. Welcome to "State the obvious Friday, with Heid the Ba'".

So will you state it?

[Arneb]

Population of Russia, in millions, Soviet red and post-Soviet blue?

[Heid the Ba]

So will you state it?

Sorry, what I meant was that all my post consisted of was a conversion from a table to text. I added nothing and have no answer.

[Мастер]

Population of Russia, in millions, Soviet red and post-Soviet blue?

Can you state exactly what you mean by "Russia"?