• bob_lemon@feddit.org
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    25 days ago

    The problem is that averaging hue makes no sense at all because hue is not a longest scale.

    If you take a red poster (0) and a blue poster (240), it averages to green. Or take red (0) and red (359), averaging to cyan (180).

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      25 days ago

      It would have made more sense if they had shown the distribution of hue as a polar graph and just had one every decade to show how it changes over time.