This graphic is the kind of thing that Tufte really doesn't like. A caption which accompanies the graphic in the magazine suggests that youth may be a good attribute for a political candidate to have in a "televisual age," but there's no quantitative analysis to accompany the speculation. He could have calculated the average age of heads of state within a certain group of countries at different times, for example. Also, this graphic is weird because of the way that each gray folder slightly overlaps the folder to its left, which makes you think that there's other writing that you've missed. Also, the name of each head of state is written below the photograph, and so you register that Medvedev is 42 before you register that he's Medvedev.
Monday, March 3, 2008
World Leaders Growing Younger
This graphic is the kind of thing that Tufte really doesn't like. A caption which accompanies the graphic in the magazine suggests that youth may be a good attribute for a political candidate to have in a "televisual age," but there's no quantitative analysis to accompany the speculation. He could have calculated the average age of heads of state within a certain group of countries at different times, for example. Also, this graphic is weird because of the way that each gray folder slightly overlaps the folder to its left, which makes you think that there's other writing that you've missed. Also, the name of each head of state is written below the photograph, and so you register that Medvedev is 42 before you register that he's Medvedev.
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