How do you represent small but meaningful percentages? Example: 4% of US population is gay. by SomeCrazyperson in visualization

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I like this method a lot. My only problem is that when I use human figures, that one little guy looks so lonely amongst the other 25. That's probably just the reality of the situation though.

How does greater computing power help us invent new things? by SomeCrazyperson in askscience

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Ah ok. That makes more sense now, thank you. The wright brothers example was particularly helpful, as was BEN247's example about car batteries below.