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Circle area's are really hard to compare. A circle with double the area of another barely looks bigger.
While I agree that comparing them by eye is difficult compared to rectangles of equal width (i.e., a bar chart), it’s a bit of a stretch to say that it barely looks bigger. The radius to get double area is sqrt (2), or almost half as large again. The same ratio as used in standard A series paper. You wouldn’t say that the long side of paper "barely looks bigger" than the short side.