Is there a term for stock photos that add absolutely nothing to an article other than offering something for sharing mechanisms to grab?
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Tufte calls it chartjunk - there is also the data/ink ratio
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that's not quite right though is it? The stock photography doesn't even pretend to be useful.
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I think that it is exactly the low usefulness of stock photos that qualifies them as chart junk. Data/ink ratio = 0
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