File talk:Rational harm assessment of drugs radar plot.svg

Why is this kind of graph ("radar plot") used for this kind of data? I think a multi-bar bar graph would be more appropriate for this. MarshallKe (talk) 01:36, 15 November 2020 (UTC)


 * The data here seems pretty dubious as well... Ex., LSD (which causes essentially no physiological harm or deaths), rates the same in "physical harm" as cigarettes (which cause ~500,000 deaths in the US annually, even after massive efforts to reduce it)?
 * I read most of the Lancet article, I suppose it's a step above "war on drugs" propaganda, but the lingering effects of those policies unfortunately trickle down into the analysis side. The study tries to workaround the sparse data available on illegal drugs by asking "experts" to rate the severity of each class of drugs. So it's an average of a bunch of random people's opinions, colored by social pressure, with all their biases and ignorance rolling up into a very silly dataset. There's even more problems (such as them trying to re-take the data to eliminate "outlier" ratings), but I hope I can drive just how junk this data is.
 * Totally agree about the radar plot, it's awful and obfuscates the data. Maybe more people would notice how obviously wrong the data is if it were presented clearly. IMO it should just be removed entirely. 174.250.40.7 (talk) 20:12, 8 October 2022 (UTC)