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^^^you're right, they're not incorrect, but it is a failure by the designer to make the data as easy to understand as possible, if there was no original intent to do that then they would have just stated the numbers on the page and moved on. Also that link posted shows that research has found that people are likely to underestimate the area of circles and through that practice has been developed to compensate for this.