• GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social
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    3 days ago

    I hope this doesn’t come off as being snarky because I’m trying to give genuine advice from the audience you’re probably trying to target but it’d be a good idea to include this bit anytime you’re presenting that graphic:

    The fear and greed index is based off of technical measurements of various active markets.

    Very broadly, it is telling you whether or not the financial class, investors, stock traders, corporations significantly involved in that, your 401k managers… are acting fearful or greedy.

    It does a good job of summarizing what I’m supposed to gather from the index.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      It doesn’t come off as snarky at all, no worries!

      Genuienly… Like, I myself am autistic, and I’m willing to bet a whole lot of other data scientist type technical data sets type careerists either are as well, or are close.

      What I’m trying to say is: It is genuienly difficult to be both well versed enough in the math and data… and at the same time have the requisite communication skills to present a whole lot of complex data in a way that people with less expertise can understand easily… while also at the same time not over generalizing so much that you are actually giving a just flat out false description or misleading metaphor.

      I appreciate your summary of what I wrote in the last post.