[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts II: Another 10,000 to come.

[Samson]

PROTECTING BLUE CORRIDORS REPORT (warning - really unpleasant images in report, as well as beautiful ones)
Challenges and solutions for migratory whales navigating national and international seas

 

[GinandTonic]

Seriously, gypsum?
Guess some countries have it even worse than others.

Could be worse. Tropical coastal countries with salt. Sunshine and seawater...

 

[stfoskey12]

I made a graph showing the population of Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC from 1800 to 2020. I only did the city limits because the size of each metro area changed a lot over those 220 years. I find it interesting that Baltimore had more people than DC until the most recent census. However, DC has had a larger metro for a while now.

 

[Ferocitus]

TIL Americans trust the Weather Channel a little, but suspect they're up to something.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Interestingly, only the Weather channel and Fox News have a 50% trust factor among Republicans. Pretty much everything else is at 30% or less (mostly less). The source of their ignorance might well be an in ability of how to think about things and so they trust no one except those around them. Lemmings?

 

[Ferocitus]

Interestingly, only the Weather channel and Fox News have a 50% trust factor among Republicans. Pretty much everything else is at 30% or less (mostly less). The source of their ignorance might well be an in ability of how to think about things and so they trust no one except those around them. Lemmings?

Well done, @Birdjaguar!
Lemmings are the key to understanding American skepticism about the Weather Channel.
It's clear that Republicans support Zeigler's theory about lemmings; Democrats are more on board with Ole Worm.

In the 1530s, geographer Zeigler of Strasbourg proposed the theory that the creatures fell out of
the sky during stormy weather and then died suddenly when the grass grew in spring. This description
was contradicted by natural historian Ole Worm, who accepted that lemmings could fall out of the
sky, but claimed that they had been brought over by the wind rather than created by spontaneous
generation.

 

[The_J]

I mainly find it interesting that business news seem to have the least spread. Probably also tells you something about America .

 

[Birdjaguar]

I mainly find it interesting that business news seem to have the least spread. Probably also tells you something about America .

Other than the editorial pages, the WSJ is pretty good business news about the topics they choose to report on. Making money is serious business and not a frivolous exercise spin control. :0

 

[Samson]

I think it is interesting what the position of the "US Adult citizens" tells you about the position of the 41% of non-aligned people. For the weather channel, the whole US is nearly at the republicans, which presumably means they trust the weather channel even less than republicans do. For the right wing the dot is nearer the democrats, meaning that the non-aligned people do not trust these.

 

[MaryKB]

I'm surprised honestly that more than 10% of Democrats trust Breitbart ...

 

[Ferocitus]

I'm surprised honestly that more than 10% of Democrats trust Breitbart ...

I'm surprised that so many CFCers believe a post by a bloke(?) named Ferocitus on an internet chat froup.

 

[Samson]

I'm surprised that so many CFCers believe a post by a bloke(?) named Ferocitus on an internet chat froup.

Good point, though you can see it on the yougov page. They also have the data as percentages. They are doing some dodgy weighting on those numbers, the individual numbers do not add up to the totals.

 

[MaryKB]

I'm surprised that so many CFCers believe a post by a bloke(?) named Ferocitus on an internet chat froup.

I was trying to be polite and didn't make clear my thoughts that I feel the data is rubbish lol.

I mean, it's par for the course to assume any statistics you find on the internet are garbage.

 

[EgonSpengler]

TIL Americans trust the Weather Channel a little, but suspect they're up to something.
View attachment 624458

I'm listening to an interview with Emily St. John Mandel on the radio, and she cited one scene in Station Eleven that she says seemed perfectly fine when she wrote it in 2012, but now strikes her as unlikely: A bunch of strangers in an airport are all gathered around a television watching news reports of the growing flu pandemic, and all of them believe the news report. None of them say it's a 'conspiracy', or fake, or otherwise refuse to believe it. She says she got a lot about how people would react to a pandemic more or less right, except that.

 

[MaryKB]

I'm listening to an interview with Emily St. John Mandel on the radio, and she cited one scene in Station Eleven that she says seemed perfectly fine when she wrote it in 2012, but now strikes her as unlikely: A bunch of strangers in an airport are all gathered around a television watching news reports of the growing flu pandemic, and all of them believe the news report. None of them say it's a 'conspiracy', or fake, or otherwise refuse to believe it. She says she got a lot about how people would react to a pandemic more or less right, except that.

I think if it hadn't been for Donny then things might have been a lot different.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I think if it hadn't been for Donny then things might have been a lot different.

Definitely possible. I have a hard time telling how much he's a cause and how much he's a symptom, just in general.

 

[Ferocitus]

I was trying to be polite and didn't make clear my thoughts that I feel the data is rubbish lol.

I mean, it's par for the course to assume any statistics you find on the internet are garbage.

I was in no way singling you out. It was a wry observation, that's all.

Good point, though you can see it on the yougov page. They also have the data as percentages. They are doing some dodgy weighting on those numbers, the individual numbers do not add up to the totals.

It was just a wry observation. I thought calling this forum a "chat froup" would be enough to show I was joking.
But maybe you are too young to remember Usenet and kibology.
But you are also right about the actual numbers. The methodology is almost completely opaque too.

 

[Grendeldef]

Out of the many unsurprising things here the relative success of PBS among Rs caught my eye. That if anything should be avoided by ideological default. Believing any of it is clearly a foreplay for treason. Willard The Magic Pants was even about to balance national budget by cutting it off.

 

[Samson]

I found some graphs about global agriculture

This century there has been significant reduction in the number of people working the land while producing loads more (I was surprised this change is still going on to this extent)

America and Asia are well into their pesticides and fertiliser

Phosphorus in 2008 and Potassium 2009 got really unpopular then recovered? Was there an economic reason here?

There are some big producers in major food crops

Inflation is a problem, but has been bigger in other places and times

 

[really]

I don't know what the alternative was but it was probably related to a spike/slump in the price of oil making an alternative cheaper/more expensive.

I know even my father was talking about the cost of energy being felt locally, farmers wary of spending a lot to spread fertiliser (locally for grass as silage to feed cattle in the winter) since the price of oil would make the fertiliser itself more expensive, the spreading more expensive and the harvesting/saving of it more expensive.