Otherwise known as the Fiction Rule of Thumb, courtesy of xkcd.
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3 thoughts on “A graph to help explain”
This graph is completely awesomer.
That's excellent!
Or grimlak, as the farhoomli'k race would say.
That is WAY too funny!