File talk:Distribution of Annual Household Income in the United States.png

Poorly Formatted Image

This image is very poorly done, and as a result, is very misleading. Every bar represents $5,000 in income, except the last two. A histogram should have been used instead of a simple bar chart.

I agree with the first post. It was completely wrong to combine the last two they way they did. The last part should have been estimated until it was too small or the groups should have been larger. Combining over $200k to get the last two is wrong. It is clearly a Weibel distribution and the distribution out from $200k could easily be estimated. This chart should either be fixed or pulled. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.194.63.101 (talk) 17:08, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

$200-$249 could be roughly estimated by dividing 2,143 by 10 and showing 214 for each of the 10 divisions; however, data may not be available to be precise with the $250+ category 24.188.100.108 (talk) 14:37, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

A SIMPLE edit could be made by simply colorizing the last two bars different; blue or red or grey or something other than green. A more complex--yet arguably more accurate--change could be to take the AVERAGE/MEDIAN percentage of households within that range. As in, between $200k and $250k, there are 10 data points (assuming they are split up in chunks of $5k differences), and thus the chart could depict the average/median--not the SUM--of the percentages of those 10 data points. The same could be done for $250k and up. -- 66.92.0.62 (talk) 03:21, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Inconsistent placements of notes

The placement of the dot for the top 25% of income falls at the right place, but the dot for the top 10% falls at the place for top 16%. --Mirrordor 19:51, 11 October 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mirrordor (talk • contribs)