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asarious t1_ivztu9v wrote

It’s not obvious to me what the dots here represent. Is it just a particular sample of newborn boys that was examined on a particular week?

I feel like a legend or some additional explanation text would help a little.

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shumpitostick t1_iw0h59u wrote

It says it at the top. Weekly Parental Forename Transmission Rate. It's not a sample, it's just the percentage of children that were born each week who got named after their dad.

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Fox-Slayer-Marx t1_iw0d8y8 wrote

I think each dot represents some period of time?

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Kkachko t1_iw145in wrote

Each dot represents one week.

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mathtech t1_iw2hqlj wrote

I think a line graph would've worked better here since it's a time series

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