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Figure 4.11: An example of a pie chart, highlighting the difficulty in apprehending the relative volume of the different pie slices.
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<p>This plot is terrible for several reasons. First, it requires distinguishing a large number of colors from very small patches at the bottom of the figure. Second, the visual perspective distorts the relative numbers, such that the pie wedge for Catholic appears much larger than the pie wedge for None, when in fact the number for None is slightly larger