it really is way more obvious if you use bars instead of circles...
i never thought much about that but it shows once again that a different presentation may give a totally different feeling about the same data. (man i really am happy that i'm not into marketing

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i think that is cause the radius only doubles when the area is 4times as big. so it seems there is not that much of a difference when using circles. maybe numbers of unemployed should be shown that way? would be mor positive ^^