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Proto Himbo Europeanguyjantic@infosec.exchange
2025-08-29

I'm going to need people who have no fucking clue how Venn diagrams work to please refrain from making them. The first image is an atrocity shared by a friend on FB (and that friend is not responsible for the abomination, and is a good person so I'm not posting this back on FB).

The second image is a proper Venn Diagram (one of several possibilities, I think, but the most common one).

The shitshow, the omnishambles, the clusterfuck...

  • How is Clockwork Orange a combination of 1984 and Brave new World?
  • How is Logan's Run a combination of Fahrenheit 451 and Handmaid's tale?
  • How in green blazes is Gattaca a combination of clockwork orange, Soylent Green, and Brave New World?
  • Et Goddamn Cetera

NONE of the overlaps make any sense. Whoever made this just threw scary book and movie titles in spaces. They should not even be informed of the existence of the proper 4-category Venn. They have proven themselves deeply unworthy.

I am guyjantic and I approve this unhinged rant about an inconsequential matter.

#rant #venndiagram #DataIsUgly #BadGraph #ForShame #Petty #soapbox

"The State Of America" (yes, they capitalized "of") with a bad attempt at a 4-category Venn diagram: four circles arranged in a square-type pattern so they achieve 4-way overlap in the center. However, this leaves the upper-left and lower-right with no 2-category overlap, as well as the upper-right and lower-left. An entire set of 3-category overlaps is also absent from this symmetrical but awful attempt. As if to highlight the utter dumbassedness of this graphic, the center is labeled "You Are Here," a message I can't take at all seriously, given the semantic/conceptual chaos of everything else in the picture. All spaces have been filled in with the titles of dystopian books or movies: 1984, Clockwork Orange, Brazil, Gattaca, Lord of the Flies, etc. As noted in the post, no thought at all has been given to the way a Venn diagram works; that is, all but four of these should represent combinations of 2 or 3 others. Nope, just scattered about like dumping silverware in the drawer without any concern about forks and teaspoons, knives and soup spoons, etc. jumbling in individual niches. It's a horror, really.This is a proper Venn diagram with 4 categories (though I believe there are others): four ellipses arranged in a somewhat herringbone/chevron pattern. This is a demonstration, so the spaces have numbers in them only, not words (and the numbers seem to be from a demonstration I'm not aware of; they're a bit random-seeming, but that's not important). All possible 2-way and 3-way overlaps are accounted for, as well as the 4-way overlap and the four individual single categories. In other words, this one is good.
Andy Lyonsmrlyonsmaths@mathstodon.xyz
2022-11-19

Can we all just take a moment to consider how truly awful and misleading this graph is... The BBC need to up their game. How many issues can you find?
#EduTooter #edutoots #edutoot #badgraph

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