I like that this post is fairly accessible, although I found the charts confusing, largely because it’s not always that clear to me what’s being measured on each axis. I basically get what’s going on, but I find myself disliking something about way the charts are presented because it’s not always very clear what each axis measures.
(In some cases I think of them as more like being multidimensional spaces you’ve put on a line, but that still makes the visuals kind of confusing.)
None of this is really meant to be a big complaint, though. Graphics are hard; I probably wouldn’t have even tried to illustrate it, so kudos to you for trying. Just felt it was also useful to register my feedback that they didn’t quite land for me even though I got the gist of them.
Thank you for the comment. As for the axes, the y-axis always denotes the desirability of the given value-system (except for Figure 1). And you are exactly right with the x-axis—that is a multidimensional space of value-systems that we put on a line, because drawing this in 3D (well, (multi+1)-D :-) ) would be a mess. I will see if I can make it somewhat clearer in the post.
I like that this post is fairly accessible, although I found the charts confusing, largely because it’s not always that clear to me what’s being measured on each axis. I basically get what’s going on, but I find myself disliking something about way the charts are presented because it’s not always very clear what each axis measures.
(In some cases I think of them as more like being multidimensional spaces you’ve put on a line, but that still makes the visuals kind of confusing.)
None of this is really meant to be a big complaint, though. Graphics are hard; I probably wouldn’t have even tried to illustrate it, so kudos to you for trying. Just felt it was also useful to register my feedback that they didn’t quite land for me even though I got the gist of them.
Thank you for the comment. As for the axes, the y-axis always denotes the desirability of the given value-system (except for Figure 1). And you are exactly right with the x-axis—that is a multidimensional space of value-systems that we put on a line, because drawing this in 3D (well, (multi+1)-D :-) ) would be a mess. I will see if I can make it somewhat clearer in the post.