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Car stereo volume vs. quality of music played


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  1. Steve says:

    How true, especially in and around Detroit.

    • Chole says:

      good quality music is always louder??? Sure, when it’s coming from /my/ stereo… but other ppls… no way!

      • Boter says:

        Graph reading fail. Louder volume equals lower quality.

        Personally, mine’s all over the place… I can see how some of the stuff I blast would be “bad” music, but really, when there’s a gridlock of cars at the Canadian border, it’s gotta make someone’s day when macarena’s nice and loud and I’m dancing in the driver’s seat.

  2. KnottyMan says:

    If it’s too loud, you’re too old.

  3. Bubba says:

    This graph is all perspective.

    Sorry Country music isn’t something i should be able to hear from the inside of my car coming from the next car over.

  4. Fasfan says:

    GRAPH DESIGN FAIL!!!
    There are no quantifiers on the chart so how am I supposed to know what it’s showing? Am I to assume that from left to right is volume low to high or high to low? The same with the vertical.
    “Always label your graphs to minimize confusion.” That’s my motto. I didn’t used to have a motto, then I got that one.

    • chris says:

      You should not have a motto. You should have your face in an elementary math book. Positive and high numbers, go to the right. Negative to the left.
      Positive numbers go up and negative ones go down. I won’t charge you any money this time I know you need your money to buy some bad music. My motto is, PLEASE DON’T TOUCH ME THERE!

      • danyell says:

        “My motto is, PLEASE DON’T TOUCH ME THERE!”

        lolz

        Fasfan:

        ‘“Always label your graphs to minimize confusion.” That’s my motto.’

        That is the worst motto I ever heard. I mean, it only works in the very specific situation of making graphs. Last I heard, most people lives did not revolve around that, so I doubt you get to pass around your “wisdom” very often. And if your life does revolved around graphs, well, then, sorry. (So, so sorry)

    • eddiepscetti says:

      I have a motto:

      “If everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.”

      I’ve always had that one and haven’t had a head on collision yet.. oh, except once with reality.. which reminds me of my other motto:

      “Sometimes reality seems so close I swear I can almost reach out and touch it!”

    • AdorableHerion says:

      Really there’s no need to label it. People with fully functioning brains can understand what the graph is trying to say. If you need a motto that bad, try “I feel the need to make things overly-simplistic”. It seems to fit you better.

  5. Athanar says:

    Actually, it’s the bad stuff that gets blasted. This graph is the inverse of the truth.

    • meh says:

      Actually, that’s exactly what this graph depicts.
      COMPREHENSION FAIL.

    • Athanar says:

      Yeah, I messed up and posted a self-contradictory statement. I was talking about rap being blasted. (I live near Harrisburg, PA, that’s big enough to know.) I don’t usually see a downward slope like this and was confused at first. Looking at it more, I see what it’s saying. But if you look at my comment, I said it’s the bad stuff that gets blasted. Bad stuff being rap. Well, most rap, a bit is good, but… most isn’t. ANYWAY. I messed up. Oh well.

    • wmdkitty says:

      I noticed that too. The graph is backwards. As the music gets worse, the volume goes up, not down.

    • wmdkitty says:

      Nevermind, I just looked at it again, and… it’s right. I fail’d.

  6. Bogie says:

    Athanar FTW!

  7. edancoll says:

    Either the graph is backwards, or the creator of the graph lives around lots of nice people.
    Also, it would be nice if the graph wasn’t linear.

  8. Ben says:

    I think too many people are reading this graph wrong. Even I read it wrong until I thought about it more. I guess that’s what separates me from these other people. Thought.

    Still, the graph would benefit from some labels.

  9. Poppyseed says:

    Pretty funny! what about people like me who turn down their music at stop lights when the windows are down?

  10. Paperclippe says:

    While the graph is in fact correct, (and TRUE, oh my god, Pittsburgh), it can be perceived as unclear or ambiguous. Which in some situations can be just as bad as being wrong. This is not one of them. It’s a graph, people, that has nothing to do with anything.

    Yay graph.

  11. Jimmy Kariznov says:

    So the highest quality music is complete silence?

  12. Fufufu says:

    Yeah, sorry, fail. I am pretty sure they meant to say that the louder the music is being played, the lower the quality is. Otherwise there’s no joke.

    • theloofa says:

      I do believe that the fail is on you…

      • A mop says:

        QFT. I’ve shat bricks smarter than you, theloofa.

      • Fufufu says:

        Do explain. ;3

        • theloofa says:

          “I am pretty sure they meant to say that the louder the music is being played, the lower the quality is.”

          Yes, that’s exactly what the graph is depicting.

          Given that the graph is most likely using the Cartesian coordinate system, it can be automatically assumed that the x-axis is defined as right giving higher values than left, as well as up giving higher values on the y-axis. Therefore, the graph depicts that as volume increases (to the right,) the quality of the music decreases (down.)

  13. miyrdda says:

    I read once about some kid whose stereo was at such a high decibel level, it actually stopped his heart. That is my wish every time I’m afflicted with the ear bleeding bass from some douchebag’s stereo ….. I hope their heart stops. And that their eardrums burst. And that they get pulled over by the cops and get fined exorbiant amounts of money. Not necessarily in that order.

    • jluve82 says:

      My city did just pass a noise ordinance, so if a cop can hear your car stereo from more than 25ft away, you get a $75 fine for the first offense, $150 for the second, $300 and having your car towed for the third. I’m not sure what happens after that, but I’m hoping for some hard core jail time!

  14. Spazz says:

    Definitely true… though some more labelling on the Y-axis especially would’ve been helpful.

    At the top we might see “Classical”, “Jazz”, other bits of classy music…

    Then at the very bottom “Rap/Reggaton”.

  15. danyell says:

    I totally get it, and I totally agree. :D

  16. >:O says:

    This is backwards. The louder it is, the lower quality it is.

    • A mop says:

      Your ass is on backwards. Learn to read graphs.

      • theloofa says:

        Ok, wtf…

        Earlier you told me that I was incorrect in saying that someone read the graph incorrectly, and now you said exactly the same thing as I did to this guy.

        • Shaw says:

          Nothing you think or write matters. You can’t read graphs and shouldn’t even be outside the kitchen in the first place, woman.

  17. jamisings says:

    I don’t get this graph. Without numbers or anything it’s hard to tell what it’s saying. I always find that the quality of the “music” – not that it really is music – goes WAY DOWN the louder the volume is.

  18. willi says:

    A great graph would have something to do with the people who can’t seem to figure this graph out.
    Typically, people, lower numbers are at the origin [as in zero, as in the bottom right corner of the graph] and get bigger out from there.
    That just made no sense. [self-labeled fail]

  19. smg. says:

    truer graphs have never been created.

    …well, maybe they have. but not likely.

  20. Oneder says:

    Yeah, I get that it’s saying Low Quality Music = High Volume, but it took me forever to see that on the graph because the downward sloping line makes it confusing.
    Just because I get what it’s trying to say doesn’t mean it’s saying it very clearly.

  21. Yesterdaisies says:

    this graph is the wrong way round, surely the loude the music the lower the quality. Funny idea though.

  22. LMAOman says:

    Well, if low quality music gets blasted at max… I guess all my tunes are set to mute.

  23. nathan118 says:

    Following this graph to the far left, isn’t it saying the best music is at imperceptible volume levels? haha

  24. Kevin from Minneapolis says:

    Shouldn’t it be the other direction?

  25. km says:

    not that funny akshully

  26. Ben E. says:

    While you don’t need units, you definitely need to get your axis right. X is for independent, Y is for dependent. Since the quality of your music dosn’t change as you turn up or down the volume, quality needs to be represented on the X axis.

  27. Nick says:

    We are getting way too technical here, people. The person who made the graph clearly fails at being funny, and the people who are trying to defend it, while correct, are not seeing the big picture that the graph is depicted incorrectly when pertaining to humor. You don’t create graphs on the site using a coordinate system. So, basically everyone fails but me.

  28. Ian L.C. says:

    …Wow, if you’re going to post a graph, make sure you have it right.


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