Greater intelligence causes a person to ignore appearances?
"Lee M" <Lee noemail.com> wrote:
> I think most people reading these articles are smart enough to be looking at
> the values not the length of the bars.
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> "John Doe" <jdoe usenetlove.invalid> wrote in message
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>> An example of a distorted performance chart.
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>> http://www.hardwarezone.com.au/revie...70&cid=2&pg=16
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>> The shortest bar is supposed to be 1.0 and the longest bar is supposed
>> to be 1.72 (but in fact the longest bar is well over twice the length
>> of the shortest bar).
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