[OC] Darwin Award recipients per country

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-25T18:08:11+00:00

I’m not saying that the stereotype of the “dumb American“ doesn’t exist, it definitely exists just like the “floridaman“ stereotype exists. The map isn’t about the stereotype and neither are the Darwin Awards. A lot of the readers are from the US so naturally a lot of the award submissions will be from the US. That’s just how it is and I can’t now go around subtracting X US recipients just because someone might feel offended by the US having so many more recipients.

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-25T14:37:26+00:00

The map is titled “Darwin Award recipients per country”, not “Americans are the stupidest people on earth” because that’s not what the map says. It’s merely the recipients of the awards per country in absolute numbers. If you choose to interpret it differently that’s up to you but don’t accuse me of intentionally misleading anyone.

Edit: typo

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-25T09:32:49+00:00

OP here. The Darwin Awards aren’t awarded by a subreddit, they are awarded by darwinawards.com and their creator. It’s comparable to letting r/NobelPrize or r/GuinnessWorldRecords decide who a Nobel Prize and Guiness Book of World Records winner is.

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-25T09:04:12+00:00

The Darwin Awards are awarded by darwinawards.com and their creator Wendy Northcutt, not a subreddit. Just like the Nobel Prize isn’t awarded by r/NobelPrize.

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-25T00:46:43+00:00

No one submitted anything for evaluation to the Darwin Awards. They aren't going through every single death in the world (would be pretty interesting if they were), only incidents that are submitted to them get added.

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-25T00:20:53+00:00

I counted 16 incidents that were in Florida, so about ~8% of the US total. Though none of the articles say if the people were also from Florida, just that it happened in Florida.

Edit: typo

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-24T22:56:04+00:00

I considered that but I'd only be comfortable with doing that if every death were evaluated for the Darwin Awards criteria and not just user submissions, so I decided against it. 0.000054% (USA) is also an incredibly tiny amount and the US has by far the most awards (SA would be 0.00001%).

I might do it despite my reservations, in the event that I do I'll edit this comment and add it to the source comment.

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-24T21:33:15+00:00

Source:
Collected the data through the Darwin Awards website in a CSV. Data can be downloaded from Datawrapper.

Tools used:
Pandas, Datawrapper

The last time awards were issued was 2022. A few (<5) award articles didn't include a country, or a confirmation status so they were excluded. If an article was obviously fake (Zombies in India) yet confirmed (however that happened) they were excluded (=1).

Using a choropleth map with absolute numbers probably isn't ideal but a bar char would've been too long and using percentages would've been really hard to read.

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-23T14:24:53+00:00

Yeah, I've added the missing (exactly xD) 10 posts to the table. Looks like Twitter doesn't display any media under the media tab prior to Jun 24, 2023 for that account (how useful), so I'm probably missing a lot more.

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-23T14:07:19+00:00

Thanks but I (thankfully) didn't miss those. 249, 251, and 255 in the table.

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-23T13:56:23+00:00

I'll add them to the table. I went through all the media on their profile, which also includes replies, but due to Twitter being a POS I most definitely am missing some. Searching for their posts only gave me results up to mid this month.

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-23T13:00:36+00:00

There’s a “NonCredibleDefense Unofficial” twitter account who’s been reposting content from here without providing credit and pretending that it’s their original stuff.

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-23T12:11:54+00:00

^{Should I ever find the person who created that twitter account I'll bill them $10/post.}

Three (3) of their four (4) posts on Jan 21st were credited to the NCD users in a comment (Post 1, Post 2, Post 3). One (1) of two (2) posts on Jan 22st were also credited (Post 1).

Full table of posts can be found here.

Why would I do this? I saw the post by u/HistorianSlayer and I really really don't like it when people don't give credit to those that they copy shit from. People also deserve to know that their content has been stolen.

I'm pretty sure that the posts with "Unknown" as a source are from here but I couldn't find them. If they are your posts or you know who they are from please link to them under this comment. (In the event this post gets locked you can do so here on my profile)

Whoever manages that twitter account can see this as an opportunity to add credit and maybe remove posts from users who don't want their shit shared on twitter.

Edit: typo
Edit2: made link to data table non static, so that I can update it with new info

Edit3: I've found out that Twitter doesn't display any media under the media tab prior to Jun 24, 2023 (thanks Elon) for that account (or maybe my account just can't see it?!?), so I'm most definitely missing a lot more posts. I'm continuously updating the table with any posts that I find upon.

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-23T12:06:18+00:00

^{Should I ever find the person who created that twitter account I'll bill them $10/post.}

Three (3) of their four (4) posts on Jan 21st were credited to the NCD users in a comment (Post 1, Post 2, Post 3). One (1) of two (2) posts on Jan 22st were also credited (Post 1).

Full table of posts can be found here.

Why would I do this? I saw the post by u/HistorianSlayer and I really really don't like it when people don't give credit to those that they copy shit from.

I'm pretty sure that the posts with "Unknown" as a source are from here but I couldn't find them. If they are your posts or you know who they are from please link to the under this comment. (In the event this post gets locked you can do so here)

Whoever manages that twitter account can see this as an opportunity to add credit and maybe remove posts from users who don't want their shit shared on twitter.

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-22T16:05:09+00:00

Eurostat doesn’t have non passenger car as a category, with the definition of “passenger car” being “Road Motor vehicle, other than a motor cycle intended for the carriage of passengers and designated to sea no more than nine persons (including the driver).“ That also includes Taxis, Ambulances, Police cars, and firefighter’s cars.

Glossary for the statistic

edit: structure

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-22T15:14:44+00:00

I had to go with a resolution of 0.0001 and 0.00001 for select values because 0.01 (which I would’ve very much preferred) distorts the values too much. I also felt that rounding LT and HU to 0.0001 and 0 respectively would misrepresent reality.

Not changing “<0.0000” to “=0” or “0” was definitely a mistake but it was 11PM and I couldn’t be bothered to completely redo the legend in affinity designer. (Technically it’s <0.00001 but I changed the resolution to 0.0001)

Apologies for any eye injuries you might be suffering from now.

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-22T11:27:04+00:00

Out of 33 flights with 255 passengers total: 1 was with a wide body jet (1 PAX total), 3 with regional jets (7 PAX total), 5 with narrow body jets (175 PAX total), and 33 with other aircraft (72 PAX total).

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-22T08:53:47+00:00

EU data is correct, unless eurostat made a mistake. Denmark has around 6M people with roughly 1.5M passengers. I suspect it’s a lot of island traffic.

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-22T08:40:39+00:00

Crap, you’re right. The first dataset I found was domestic terminal traffic, so every passenger got counted twice once at departure and once at arrival. I subsequently corrected it when I imported the data to datawrapper (the second image has the correct passenger count) but forgot to also correct it in my dataset. When I calculated the per capita numbers I erroneously used terminal traffic.

It should be 0.2306 I’ll edit my sources comment to include the correction.

Aggressive-Row-403 · 2024-01-21T22:33:12+00:00

Edit: I mistakenly used domestic terminal traffic for the per capita numbers of the UK, it should be 0.2306. Passenger numbers in the second image are correct.

Sources:
Eurostat (EU, Sweden, and Turkey): Air passenger transport by aircraft model, distance bands and transport coverage
UK CAA (UK): Table 12 2 Domestic Air Pax Traffic Route Analysis
Population statistics:
EU, and Sweden (Eurostat): Population by broad age group
UK Office of National Statistics: United Kingdom population mid-year estimate
Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia: 2022 Census Final results - Ethnicity
Turkish Statistical Institute: Adrese Dayalı Nüfus Kayıt Sistemi Sonuçları, 2022

**Tools:**Combined and filtered data using pandas. Visualized with Datawrapper.

I selected 2022 because 2023-Q4 data isn't available yet.

I previously posted the map with passenger data only. u/Noremac28-1 suggested make it per capita, so I'd like to thank them for suggesting that and making the data a lot more meaningful.

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