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Technology Stocks : George Gilder - Forbes ASAP
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To: moat who wrote (277)11/17/1997 9:44:00 PM
From: duncan moyer  Read Replies (1) of 5853
 
moat,

It has always amazed me how many financial charts are NOT done on semi-log (ratio) scales. The Wall Street Journal, I believe, is guitly of this error.

Scaled in this manner movements of equal percentages show as equal amounts of vertical space. By using a ratio graph the Dow 30 for example could be very easily compared to the S&P500 assuming that the vertical scales were identical.

I hope that Mr Gilder will consider this small change, even though I do not subscribe to his newsletter.
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