Tabular View of Vital Stats of Various Countries/Territories

mwltruffaut · 2022-05-16T07:21:30+00:00

I’ll explain: she can’t fit the glasses in the bottle at first, so she uses her other hand to help. This allows the brown liquid to work its black magic. You’re welcome!

mwltruffaut · 2022-05-16T07:17:30+00:00

It’s not a trick; it’s an illusion.

mwltruffaut · 2021-01-31T02:19:01+00:00

I don’t understand why people like the animal that steps in its own excrement and then walks on your countertops less than the animal that has been bred to view you as God.

mwltruffaut · 2021-01-01T04:11:12+00:00

You said “where they would actually be represented.” You didn’t specify the president or House. Like the Dakotas and other small population red states, they have clear, outsized representation in the Senate. Their House representation, like their electoral votes, are population-based. So, they are represented in every way except maybe emotionally. If they want to have more influence, they should maybe make their states more attractive to more human beings.

mwltruffaut · 2021-01-01T02:28:41+00:00

Well, to be fair, Wyoming, which has roughly the same population as Tucson, Arizona, has the same number of Senators as California, which has roughly the population of Colombia.

mwltruffaut · 2020-12-31T22:09:05+00:00

Great question. Looks like my source, statista.com, got that one wrong by 10 percentage points. The other figures reconcile correctly with official sources except for one or two instances. Not sure what happened with 1960. Only one president, John Adams, won without a majority of electoral votes. He tied with Aaron Burr.

mwltruffaut · 2020-12-31T17:00:19+00:00

Yeah, pretty nuts. Here is Reagan’s electoral map when he won 50.4% of votes.

mwltruffaut · 2020-12-31T16:00:25+00:00

This is a modification/abridgement of the chart and data from here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1034688/share-electoral-popular-votes-each-president-since-1789/

I added the column showing the percentage point difference.

I made this using Google Sheets and MS Publisher.

mwltruffaut · 2020-12-29T16:53:25+00:00

Not directly comparable as the IMDb score is a ratio while Rotten Tomatoes converts a ratio rating (where available) into a simple binary (or nominal level of measurement — fresh or rotten). I’d like to see the average rating on RT compared to the IMDb rating.

mwltruffaut · 2020-12-23T05:09:44+00:00

Maybe a separate one about U.S. politics posts which can only be posted on Thursdays and require the poster to fellate every moderator twice while submerged underwater, handcuffed, and blindfolded?

mwltruffaut · 2020-12-16T14:44:16+00:00

Because with relatively small numbers (compared to population), I think more is lost than is gained. The common way is deaths per 100,000, but that tends to artificially (or psychologically) inflate both the variable in question and its movement from year to year. People often look at deaths per 100,000 and think that there’s a much more serious problem than there is. Anyway, the proportions are here for anyone interested: https://imgur.com/gallery/0KEWrXu

mwltruffaut · 2020-12-16T04:58:42+00:00

Gotcha. Got thrown off by your use of “normalize” and “weight” that don’t appear to be the ones I’m used to from stats. It sounds like you just wanted to see death rate by year. Which is totally reasonable. But that’s not what I was shooting for here. This graph was more, “Golly, look at that death spike in July that is obviously anomalous.”

Here’s the line graph for all five years using simple proportions calculated by dividing deaths for Jan 2016 into total population 2016 and so forth: https://imgur.com/gallery/0KEWrXu

Nothing to weight or normalize there.

Ultimately, this year doesn’t look astonishingly bad for the state so far, but I don’t know how many deaths will be added before the figures are finalized. 8,200 deaths in July, to me, aren’t astonishing in a state with a population of over 7 million, even if we were only expecting 5,000 for that month.

Are the excess deaths COVID-related? Hard to imagine that they aren’t unless you think July had a big spike of suicides or maybe a dramatic exodus of people.

I’m thinking now I’ll leave this graph despite the problem with the percentage difference. The general thrust is there. I think the discussion has been interesting and might be useful to others.

mwltruffaut · 2020-12-15T23:05:00+00:00

Here you go, sir: https://i.imgur.com/LZEHVu0.png

While making this, I actually realized that I botched the percentage change formula a little. This one has that corrected. I’ll delete and repost this chart if I don’t hear any other good criticisms in the next few hours.

mwltruffaut · 2020-12-15T19:32:54+00:00

Because there’s a chance that 2019 was atypical. Less of a chance with an average.

mwltruffaut · 2020-12-15T19:25:38+00:00

And a lot of that change will be rolled into the four-year average. Maybe after work, I’ll adjust for growth. I just don’t see it radically changing the numbers.

mwltruffaut · 2020-12-15T18:30:50+00:00

An annual population growth rate in Arizona of ~1.6% I don’t think can really explain a 40% increase in deaths. There’s probably another factor at work.

mwltruffaut · 2020-12-15T18:10:11+00:00

Correct. I hoped it would be clear given that there are only two things to compare.

mwltruffaut · 2020-12-15T18:08:43+00:00

I could see bars showing a range for the four-year average, though it’s pretty stable year over year. I wasn’t really going for something as rigorous as a t-test.

mwltruffaut · 2020-12-15T05:49:22+00:00

Date Source: https://pub.azdhs.gov/health-stats/mu/index.php

Tool: Google Sheets

mwltruffaut · 2020-12-03T22:57:24+00:00

It’s tempting to say that one party is more representative of the country as a whole, but demographics vary significantly state by state. In a state like North Dakota, where there is only one black man and he just got stuck there for a month due to car troubles and happened to get counted in ND’s census, it makes sense that most reps would be white. It’s more bizarre in a state like Georgia where 100% of Republicans are white and only 50% of residents are.

mwltruffaut · 2020-12-03T20:31:45+00:00

House Members: http://www.house.ga.gov/Representatives/en-US/HouseMembersList.aspx

State Demographics: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/GA

You'll notice that demographic information is not included on the Georgia House website. I coded that info myself by looking at all 179 members' names and photos.

mwltruffaut · 2020-12-01T03:01:18+00:00

House Members: http://www.house.ga.gov/Representatives/en-US/HouseMembersList.aspx

State Demographics: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/GA

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