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What is the second dimension on the key?

I didn't make the map but I can see the maker had two intentions: 1) Use colours magenta = abrahamic and yellow=dharmic religion. 2) Suggest the proportion of the population by the saturation of the colour(s). IMO the choice of colours is unskilful because degrees of saturation of yellow hardly show on a typical screen. A better choice might be a pair of primary colours e.g. blue/red for abrahamic/dharma, becose these combine additively to give varying nuances of magenta. Anyway check the result on both CRT and LCD screens.

Another idea I have is to add little icons to the key to show the religions in a language-independent way, but I am not sure what icon best represents the abrahamic group. -- cuddlyable3

[edit] Illustration contains significant errors, should not be used

In addition to the nonsensical legend (see comment above), note the following significant errors that even I (a mere layman) was able to detect at first glance:

--India is represented as 100% Dharmic, ignoring the significant Muslim (Abrahamic) minority, 13.4% of the population which constitutes the third largest population of Muslims in the world Islam in India.

--Tibet is represented in white, ignoring all the native Tibetan Buddhist (Dharmic) adherents Tibet#Culture.

With such glaring errors, this illustration should not be used in its present form!

--Frappyjohn 16:36, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

I think the first objection is wrong, India is colored slightly dark yellow indicating a minority of abrahamic faiths. Compare with the southeast Asian nations that are colored bright yellow meaning almost complete edherence of dharmic faiths. The second objection relates more to the political status of Tibet than the accuracy of this map which only represents countries as a whole. --Bjarki 22:57, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Maybe the percentages should be shown on the map to clear up any misconceptions due to the shading. 69.161.80.217
For many countries, this map differs egregiously from it's alleged sources, eg. it gives Sweden as more-or-less 100% Abrahamitic, whereas the Christianity by country page gives 10-19%, Islam by country gives 0-9%. Judaicism being neglible, that adds up to 30% Abrahamitic at most. Orcoteuthis (talk) 15:00, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Greenland [and Bahamas] are incorrecty coloured.

I'm not sure why these data are missing, but Greenland should be coloured the same way as Scandinavia in Northern Europe (i.e. as following an Abrahamic religion.) Almost the entire population belong to the Lutheran Evangelical Church, in this case, the Church of Denmark. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 11:42, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

  • I also wonder why there are black spots in French Guiana and (of all places) Andorra, which is heavily Catholic by virtue of being co-influenced by both Spain and France.. There are probably others here as well... is it something about colonialism that makes a region not count? -BaronGrackle 16:28, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Added by RWP on 9/20/07: The Bahamas are over 96% Christian, yet is shown in black (presumably meaning that data is missing).

[edit] color scale

Why is the color scale two-dimensional? There is only one variable on the map (percentage), so I don't understand why there appear to be variations on the legend across the same value of percentage. bikeable (talk) 22:10, 7 May 2007 (UTC)