The "3D Pyramid" style visualizations on the Survey Results home page are misleading

[jeroenheijmans]

I saw the survey results were released, thanks for sharing!

One gripe about the main/home page of the results though, there are two rather misleading visualizattions.

The first one is about "Work (satisfaction)", screenshot:

The percentages correspond to the heights of the layers (so that's okay), but the 3D-style visualization misleadingly suggests the volume of the layers corresponds to percentages. Here's a table of percentages named, heights in pixels measured on my screen resolution, and estimated volumes (roughly estimated, I think you get the point?):

Percentage named	Pixel-height (with %)	Estimated volume of total volume
22% ✅	89 (21.6%) ✅	5% ❌
33% ✅	136 (33.1%) ✅	18% ❌
45% ✅	186 (45.3%) ✅	45% ✅
---------	---------	---------
100% total	100% total	68% total ❌

Something similar (but different) holds here:

The "52%" slice at the top is visually a TON smaller than the "63%" slice at the bottom. Equally misleading.

Options (in my mind) include:

• Don't go "Pyramid" but stacked tower (so equal bases).
• Increase the height of layers to compensate for smaller bases.
• Don't use 3D at all :P
• And surely there are other options too :)