File talk:Per capita US income.png

These numbers are at best improperly labeled
What are these numbers?

When I followed the "Source" link (http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/historical/people/2011/P01AR_2011.xls), I got, "Sorry, the page you requested has either been moved or is no longer available on this server.” (https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/historical/people/2011/P01AR_2011.xls).

The Wikipedia article on Personal income in the United States claims that “The U.S Bureau of the Census has the Annual median personal income at $30,240 in 2015.” This number is completely off the top of this chart. The number cannot have changed that dramatically in four years.

The real GDP per capita in 2016 was 57,466.79 USD according to http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD.

I do not know what these numbers represent, but they are wrong as currently labeled.

Secondarily, bar charts that do NOT start at zero are misleading. See, e.g., w:Wikipedia:Don't draw misleading graphs. Use a line chart for this.

After checking, I found that the creator of this plot, User:CLDunlap, was confirmed in 2013 as a "sock puppet", and was blocked indefinitely. Anything this person did on Wikimedia projects should be distrusted. DavidMCEddy (talk) 23:51, 24 July 2017 (UTC)