[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[anyoldguy]

I'm very curious as to how they collected that data.

 

[Monsterzuma]

 

[Borachio]

I'm very curious as to how they collected that data.

I'd guess it's done using interviews. Ask a number of pimps in each region how much they make, how many prostitutes they run, how much each punter is charged, what proportion of earnings are kept by the pimp, etc (information which you can validate by asking their women, and seeing how much money they actually do have, and spend). If you make it clear that their responses are anonymous, and your sample size is large enough, then I'd say you've got a good chance of collecting some meaningful data.

It's interesting that a pimp in Atlanta can make six times as much as one in Kansas City. Why is this?

 

[Monsterzuma]

 

[Monsterzuma]

may have been updated since march 13... I don't think it's been found yet?

 

[Whomp]

Monsterzuma that flight 370 chart is crazy.

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[Arwon]

China having a very low belief in God is just completely shocking there...

 

[Borachio]

As shocking as how high the US figure is?

 

[Monsterzuma]

south korea (?!) and france are also peculiar outliers.

do Japanese still see their emperor as god?

 

[Little Faith]

China having a very low belief in God is just completely shocking there...

Buddhism

 

[Hygro]

China having a very low belief in God is just completely shocking there...

That might also be true, but the graph is asking if God is necessary for morality. To say God is not necessary does not deny faith in God, it merely denies that one's present faith must be correct in order for morality to have ever existed.

 

[Arwon]

I probably could have emphasised the sarcasm a little more I guess.

I'm quite surprised it's as high as ~17%

 

[Hygro]

Sarcasm or not, it's still not telling us whether 0%, 100%, or anywhere in between the number of people in those countries who believe in God.

 

[Mise]

I think the question is a decent proxy for "public secularism", or something. So "secularism" as applied to the public, rather than in the constitution or laws etc. I don't know how to phrase this tbh, but how far the public have internalised the idea that religion can be separated from the rest of the body, whether that body is law or a person's other beliefs.

Spain and Italy are more interesting than France. France is clearly a very secular country, whereas Spain and Italy are much more comfortable with public displays of religious faith.

 

[Arwon]

Spain also had the institution which runs their main faith intimately tied up in supporting and benefiting from oppressive politics. That sort of history tends to make one cynical of claims about morality.

 

[Borachio]

I don't see the graph makes any claims about morality at all.

It does show a nice inverse relationship between belief in God being necessary for morality and wealth.

But I'm not sure what the take-home message should be.

 

[JohannaK]

If you wanna be rich, become an atheist!

 

[Monsterzuma]

if you either weight the us for population or divide it up into smaller regions of comparable population to european nations' that graph looks more like a U shape.

do the same with china and i think the correlation might disappear altogether.

idia would drag the left side up again by a bit... but china and india combined would have pretty average number and render the influence of others tiny by comparison...

on second thought the near entirety of africa i.e. 1.1 billion is probably contained in the top left corner. and indonesia, philipines etc are quite big...

 

[Monsterzuma]

http://advisorperspectives.com/dshort/guest/Lance-Roberts-140317-Fedspeak-Recession-Indicator.php

 

[Monsterzuma]

a lot of the shorter recoveries seem to be from a very long time ago. maybe not so relevant anymore.