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^^^but surely seeing as its harder to perceive the area of a circle it would have been better for the purposes of an infographic to use a shape that is more easily understandable, after all the point of infographics is to display complex data in a way easy for viewers to understand.

Seeing as shapes were one of the first things I learnt as a nipper, I wouldn't have said it was hard to perceive the *relative** area of a circle in the first place.

*it's only necessary to understand the size relative to the next circle