The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 1 - Picturing Distributions with Graphs - Chapter 1 Exercises - Page 38: 1.26b

Answer

The most important difference in the distribution is that LinkedIn had a distribution skewed toward working age (21+) people, while Facebook and Twitter were more equally geared toward people of all ages. It was important to order the bars by age. Otherwise, the bars would have the ages out of order, making the comparison difficult.

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