The second finding, however, is the key weakness of a log chart: people have a hard time interpreting the scale. In the log chart, the final dot looks like it’s at around 60-70,000 deaths or so.

More by Kurt Kleiner This article was originally published with the title “A Natural Log: Our Innate Sense of Numbers is Logarithmic, Not Linear” in SA Mind Vol. 19 No. 4 (August 2008), p. 13 ...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the properties of various tests of linear and logarithmic (or log-linear) regression models. The test procedures may be categorized as follows: (i) tests that ...