Am 07.04.2008 um 12:24 schrieb Richard Cotton: > > thegeologician wrote: >> >> Of course, these plots could be plotted separately with a common >> x-axis, >> it's just a matter of saving space and of being used to that kind of >> graph. I can't imagine anyone being falsely lead to a thought like "oh >> gosh, the temperature is much higher/bigger/more than the >> precipitation!" - that makes no sense. > > I think in the temperature/ precipitation case, whether to draw > multiple > y-axes or not is a fairly minor decision. The reader would have to be > pretty dumb to assume that temperatures and precipitations can be > compared. > Au contraire, the diagrams are set up to allow this comparison. Google for "Walter Lieth" for details.
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