This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Founded in 1933 by a group of young British and American economists, The Review of Economic Studies aims to encourage research in ...

Stock charts come in two main forms%3A Linear and logarithmic Linear charts treat all dollar price changes equally Professional investors look at both types of charts to understand stock moves USA ...

Using cross-sectional agricultural household accounting record data for 1967 and 1968, a linear logarithmic expenditure system, consisting of three commodities--leisure, agricultural commodities, and ...

The second finding, however, is the key weakness of a log chart: people have a hard time interpreting the scale. In the log chart, the final dot looks like it’s at around 60-70,000 deaths or so.

More by Kurt Kleiner This article was originally published with the title “A Natural Log: Our Innate Sense of Numbers is Logarithmic, Not Linear” in SA Mind Vol. 19 No. 4 (August 2008), p. 13 ...