{"id":267,"date":"2010-01-15T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T20:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2010-01-15T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T20:21:07","slug":"the-costs-of-exaggeration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/the-costs-of-exaggeration\/","title":{"rendered":"The Costs of Exaggeration &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On an Apple related list I found a pointer to this <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmyplay.com\/2010\/01\/04\/apple-macbook-prices-infographic\/\" target=\"_blank\">price comparison<\/a> chart. Although the author already put a disclaimer in his post that this graph was not intended to be &#8220;mathematically correct&#8221;, it is amazing how badly the actually information is hidden behind the rainbow chart.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Spiral\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theusRus.de\/Blog-files\/MacBookSpiral.png\" alt=\"Spiral\" width=\"545\" height=\"681\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using a simple barchart just does not deliver any dramatic story at all, but hey, if prices are almost identical in Hong Kong and the US, please don&#8217;t show a difference. Here is the less appealing, but faithful chart:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bars\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theusRus.de\/Blog-files\/MacBookBars.png\" alt=\"Bars\" width=\"304\" height=\"248\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not to mention all the problems of adding the correct taxes, which are not really solved for these prices &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an Apple related list I found a pointer to this price comparison chart. Although the author already put a disclaimer in his post that this graph was not intended to be &#8220;mathematically correct&#8221;, it is amazing how badly the actually information is hidden behind the rainbow chart. Using a simple barchart just does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-good-the-bad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}