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That graph is trash. The baseline needs to be at zero.
No it doesn't.
It's meant to illustrate a change and it does so perfectly fine. It's not a scientific paper.
It's a 32-34% increase looking at the graph. That's significant enough to shout about.
Imagine any change you could make surprising competition by 25% in any market. That's huge.
You could say the same about a 0.001 difference if you zoom in on the y-axis. You don't know what you're talking about.
A 0.001 difference on a 0.004 total would be worth showing.
That was a bad example. Try 1,000,000 moving up to 1,000,069.
I'm sticking with relevance. A >25% rise is what we're talking about.
A 25% raise would show up with the y shits at zero. As would any significant increase.