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BlueCheese

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16. Krugman did address this kind of issue before.

Reply to Dreamer Tatum (Reply #7)

Tue Jul 9, 2013, 02:05 PM

Jul 2013

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/axes-of-evil/

I agree with you in general that limiting the range of the y-axis is often used to mislead, and one should be careful about doing so. I don't think that was Krugman's intent in this case, however.

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