Illuminati-R-Us

I have a really hard time trying to come up with reasons why that's close . . .

Мастер wrote:I have a really hard time trying to come up with reasons why that's close . . .

cos if you squint really hard it kinda looks like this?

Well, they're both graphs.

Мастер wrote:

The top axis is the day of the working week, the lower axis is the number of impossible things I still have to complete that week and the Y axis is the number of fucks I give about it all?

Lianachan wrote:

Мастер wrote:

The top axis is the day of the working week, the lower axis is the number of impossible things I still have to complete that week and the Y axis is the number of fucks I give about it all?

I vote for this!

tubeswell wrote:

Lianachan wrote:

Мастер wrote:

The top axis is the day of the working week, the lower axis is the number of impossible things I still have to complete that week and the Y axis is the number of fucks I give about it all?

I vote for this!

I'm pretty sure it's right. Oh, the green is with coffee and the red is without coffee.

The horizontal axis measures time.

Dammit if Lianachan's answer isn't correct.

Would it be too much of a giveaway to tell us which unit the y axis has?

Arneb wrote:Would it be too much of a giveaway to tell us which unit the y axis has?

It is a fraction of a whole, so it has a theoretical minimum of zero and a maximum of one.

The two lines mark the upper and lower confidence bounds.

The units along the horizontal axis are quite large amounts of time.

OK, let's try Big.

The numbers on the lower x-axis are billions of years, while the numbers on the upper one represent Ages of the Earth. Maybe the question mark is during the putative Snowball Earth period, and the red and green linees represent estimates of atmospheric oxygen content, conveniently converging at the just over 20 % mark we are seeing in the current era. The border between epochs 4 and 5 would then be the Precambiran/Cambrian transition, at a something like .55 Gy ago. And the "recent" spike would be some time during Cretacious, when, as I seem to recall foggily, there was a spike in atmospheric O2 reaching almost 40 %.

Does that even make sense?

Arneb wrote:OK, let's try Big.

The numbers on the lower x-axis are billions of years, while the numbers on the upper one represent Ages of the Earth. Maybe the question mark is during the putative Snowball Earth period, and the red and green linees represent estimates of atmospheric oxygen content, conveniently converging at the just over 20 % mark we are seeing in the current era. The border between epochs 4 and 5 would then be the Precambiran/Cambrian transition, at a something like .55 Gy ago. And the "recent" spike would be some time during Cretacious, when, as I seem to recall foggily, there was a spike in atmospheric O2 reaching almost 40 %.

Does that even make sense?

Gut gemacht!

Arneb wrote: there was a spike in atmospheric O2 reaching almost 40 %.

When the bugs got REAL BIG!

Lance wrote:

Arneb wrote: there was a spike in atmospheric O2 reaching almost 40 %.

When the bugs got REAL BIG!

Yeah, they had dragonflies with one mete wingspans back then, and now that you've mentioned it, I think their existence was attributed to the high oxygen concentrations in the Cretaceous. Must have made for nice wildfires, too.

From my field again.

Is the horizontal axis age, and the vertical axis heart rate?

Arneb wrote:

Lance wrote:

Arneb wrote: there was a spike in atmospheric O2 reaching almost 40 %.

When the bugs got REAL BIG!

Yeah, they had dragonflies with one mete wingspans back then, and now that you've mentioned it, I think their existence was attributed to the high oxygen concentrations in the Cretaceous. Must have made for nice wildfires, too.

Exactly. There's only so big an animal that respires through its exoskeleton can get. More oxygen available = bigger bug.

Мастер wrote:Is the horizontal axis age, and the vertical axis heart rate?

No to both, but age plays a role her. Note that by vertue of the different coulours, the plot contains three dimenions of information.

I guess I should give some hints to get things going again.

The y axis is in percent. All bars add up to 100 %, counting all the subgroups.

The x axis counts years up to some recent date (2010) I think.

Are the coloured bands age related?

Smoking?

Age related, yes: They represent the age distribution of something thorugh the years.

Smoking, plausible, but no. The change is too quick for that. I must say, when I saw this graph I was rather struck by what it shows (the data, significantly, are for Germany, not, say, subsaharan Africa )

New cases of HIV?

Not quite, but very close.

If I'm reading this correctly it is something young people used to get but older people get now?