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I think it's giving you a percentage of people who answered exactly the same as you on all questions.

Edit: Okay I have no idea what it's meant to be (other than "11")

Am I crazy/dumb or is the chart super confusing? I really had to stare at it to figure out how to read it, and I'm still just guessing the vertical scale is percent of the whole that think each item is a car.

But also I got 11% here.

I agree. This has to be the worst, most unintentionally confusing graph I've ever seen. And I don't solely blame this website because many people make this mistake too: For crying out loud, how can you make the simple mistake of not labeling your axis? People online who make graphs—stop not labeling your axes! It's the whole point of the graph!

And 11%, why is everyone getting 11%? Is it a backend error? Who knows! If that 11% had a label, it would be easier for us to know whether it's working as intended or not.

I too got 11%. But I think it's actually emergent, not an error.

I answered that 4 were vehicles (contra OP, I included the tank), and still got 11%. I think there must be some issue with the calculation.

Given that “kite” is the lowest and “Honda civic” is the highest, I’m assuming the bar chart shows % of people who classified it as a violation, regardless of color. For me, the last three are red, and they are also the only ones above 50%. To me that means I agreed with the majority 100% of the time.

But it says I had 11% agreement with the majority.

I got 11% - did anyone not get 11%?

I also couldn't see two different colors on my dimmed phone display until I zoomed way in. I'm not even colorblind.

Maybe it is meta commentary on how broken automatic content filters are when applied to forum posts.

I too got 11% but stuck assiduously to powered vehicles on the ground of or launched from the park.

I did not include the tank.

I also got the exact same percentage saying 'yes' to everything.

I also got the exact same percentage saying 'no ' to everything.

27 * .11 ~= 3, fwiw

The problem is that I also got 11% just saying yes to everything. It would seem surprising to me to have the same percentage of maximalists as there is for people who are in the majority on every question

I answered "is a vehicle" to 15 out of 27 questions and also got 11%, so this is either a crazy coincidence or the number's effectively hard coded.

I said yes to about half and also got 11%

I answered yes to one and also got 11%

Suspiciously, I also got 11% (no to everything except police, ambulance, and car)

I got 23% but I included defunct tank memorial.

I also had 11%, but included the tank memorial.

Exact same for me. Well played!

I got 11% but only with the car

11% here too…

I got 11% as well, with no to everything (including the emergency vehicles) and yes to the Honda civic

Same.

I got 11% as well.

I also got 11% with a mix of yeses and nos. I'm guessing something broke. Hopefully the data is being logged correctly at least.

also 11%

I got 11% voting yes on only the Honda Civic and the police. (I accidentally clicked no on the ambulance)

I also got 11% answered no to everything but car and horse...

Not sure given the other responses if this number is acurate?

I answered no to every single scenario as a test, and I also got 11%.

I came to the comments to find out what's going on with the 11%. I was worried that if I agreed with the majority just 11% of the time I must have reversed the buttons or something. But my choices mostly agree with the graph, so I don't think I made an error. I guess everyone gets 11%?

I got 12%, and after also not knowing what it means, and seeing no units whatsoever on the y-axis of the chart, have to leave feeling the author completely and utterly missed their opportunity to convince me of whatever argument they were making. You lose me completely at inability to convey meaningful data from the experiment.

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