NATO officers. Two years after their original survey, zonination has re plotted the data as a gorgeous joyplot a la Joy Division. The graph above is smoothed you can see a more precise and wonky graph, as well as the original data, at the projects Git. Hub page. There are a couple of goofy outliers one person labeled probably not as 1. Theres also data on what amounts like a few or dozens of mean to people, but the graph is on a logarithmic scale that makes some answers hard to interpret. Of course, the phrases below were stripped of the context that could imply vastly different meanings. The EPA recently released fuel economy figures for the 2018 Chevrolet Equinox Diesel, and at 28 city39 highway32 combined, theyre good. Very good. Best In Class. Some Americans own two homes obviously means something different from I left some dishes in the sink. The main takeaway is that people interpret the same phrase in very different ways, so when you need to communicate an important probability or amount, its best to use concrete, quantitative language, ideally an actual numeric range. For more joyplots, search for joyplot on Twitter. Perceptions Git. Hub via Randy Olson.