critique

arbitrary threshold

Cutoff picked without justification and used as the yardstick for a phenomenon.

seuil arbitraire

Seuil choisi sans justification au regard duquel un phénomène est jugé.

Le seuil peut être un nombre dans le texte ou une ligne tracée sur le graphique. Une des erreurs de raisonnement de Lisnic et al. (2023).

Classification

critique

Attestation

French term: Parent, Analyse et modélisation d'agroécosystèmes, GAE-7007 course notes, Université Laval ↗
English definition: Lisnic et al., Misleading Beyond Visual Tricks: How People Actually Lie with Charts, CHI 2023 ↗

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Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/arbitrary-threshold.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. arbitrary threshold. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/arbitrary-threshold.html

BibTeX

@incollection{taudiere2026-arbitrary-threshold,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {arbitrary threshold},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/arbitrary-threshold.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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