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As a feedback on the visuals, I'm sure you know what this scorecard means. I'm sure I could figure out what this scorecard means if I put a bunch of effort in. The fact that "figuring out what it means" is a problem worth talking about is all you need to know.

If the idea was "LOL, joke scorecard" then, I guess joke is on me, otherwise, if you revise this I'd recommend to decide what one thing the scorecard is supposed to communicate, then visualise only that and accept that people will need to read the rest of the text to know more.




I also was unclear on what the scorecard was. From elsewhere in this thread it's something to do with "Consumer Reports", which I've never heard of. Wikipedia helped with the rest.

"Consumer Reports graphs formerly used a modified form of Harvey balls for qualitative comparison. The round ideograms were arranged from best to worst. On the left of the diagram, the red circle indicated the highest rating, the half red and white circle was the second highest rating, the white circle was neutral, the half black circle was the second-lowest rating, and the entirely black circle was the lowest rating possible"


It's like 90% a joke (it's the old Consumer Reports scale, where the red-white-dot is "best" and black-white-dot is "worst"). It's definitely not important to the content in the post.




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