Science magazine carried a piece recently on how miles per gallon
misleads, while gallons per mile is a more natural scale.
I've seen this picked up in many forums as a kind of discovery or
breakthrough, which does makes me wonder.
<http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2008/0620fuel_efficiency.shtml>
The original article will also be accessible to many readers.
The point does also often arise with analyses of the auto data....
Nick
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Verkuilen, Jay
Many seemingly ratio scale variables are actually log-interval, e.g.,
gas mileage, which can be equally well represented as miles per gallon
or gallons per mile.
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