Well, having seen a few more votes in the poll, I see that it DOES give a kind of graphic representation (by where the value is placed on the line), so, it's not such a bad change (although, I am partial to bars on my graphs... ).
__________________ ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third. (Ambrose Bierce)