[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[Terxpahseyton]

I wouldn't do so either. Equality is one factor of many to be considered anyway. Likewise, I wouldn't view your scenario to be a bad development even though inequality has increased.

 

[Leoreth]

I think SiLL has a point that diversity isn't the same as equality. However, I think the graphs very clearly indicates that things have changed for the better. The difference is, I guess, in which "direction" the graph flattens. If incomes at $10k change to $50k, things have changed for the better. The graph flattens, too, when they change to $8k, but that's obviously not a good thing.

 

[Murky]

“Did Humans Evolve From Earlier Species?” Miller, Scott, and Okamoto. Science, 2006

So should be be appalled about the USA's ignorance or encouraged from the worlds' acceptance of evolution?

 

[Save_Ferris]

I always think that the best word that describes America is "stubborn". It's good or bad, depending on how you see it.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

The insistence to still use feet and ounces as measuring units is stubborn. Refusal of evolution has nothing to do with stubbornes, it's a matter of faith and/or poor science education leading to anti-intellectualism.

 

[Mise]

I wouldn't do so either. Equality is one factor of many to be considered anyway. Likewise, I wouldn't view your scenario to be a bad development even though inequality has increased.

I think SiLL has a point that diversity isn't the same as equality. However, I think the graphs very clearly indicates that things have changed for the better. The difference is, I guess, in which "direction" the graph flattens. If incomes at $10k change to $50k, things have changed for the better. The graph flattens, too, when they change to $8k, but that's obviously not a good thing.

But inequality didn't increase. I don't like the Gini coefficient, as it hides a multitude of sins, but the Gini coefficient clearly increased when those 4 people started earning 50k instead of 10k. You can work it out yourself and correct me if I'm wrong, but here's the calculation I did:


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The gini coefficient of the first scenario is 0.409; this falls to 0.167 when 4 people start earning $50k.

If I've done something wrong in the calculation then please do correct me, but my intuitive understanding of what the Gini coefficient calculates (and of cumulative distribution functions) certainly backs it up. If you drew the graphs to scale, you would certainly see the area under the lower curve increasing, which would indicate greater equality.


P.S. this is relevant to the thread because it contains graphs

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I don't know how to calculate the Gini coefficient, but I used this website to do so anyway and got for case 1 0.40909 (as you have) but for case 2 0.42929.

Considering that case 1 matches and your case 2 is ridiculous low, I'll go with the website for now and maintain my initial bizarre calculation to be correct in its general statement .

And here is some chart:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:European_cities_real_wages.png

 

[Mise]

Looks like I did it wrong somewhere (probably because I was too lazy to do it all as a %). EDIT: God dammit, it was a simple adding error in the calculation if B2. Serves me right for getting all cocky

But SiLL, I must hand it to you, having given your workings a less dismissive consideration... It looks like you were one tiny step away from calculating the Gini coefficient yourself, using your own logic. Which is pretty impressive!!

All you had to do was divide your 4.5 and 4.7 by 11 (i.e. the total population), and you end up with the respective Gini coefficients.

Now if only I had said 5 instead of 4...

 

[Terxpahseyton]

All you had to do was divide your 4.5 and 4.7 by 11 (i.e. the total population), and you end up with the respective Gini coefficients.

Wow, cool, had no idea

 

[mangxema]

Flavor map:

Each node denotes an ingredient, the node color indicates food category, and node size reflects the ingredient prevalence in recipes. Two ingredients are connected if they share a significant number of flavor compounds, link thickness representing the number of shared compounds between the two ingredients. Adjacent links are bundled to reduce the clutter. Note that the map shows only the statistically significant links, as identified by the algorithm of Refs.28, 29 for p-value 0.04. A drawing of the full network is too dense to be informative. We use, however, the full network in our subsequent measurements.

 

[madviking]

I like the liver island.

 

[Mise]

WTH, what seafood tastes like cheese?!

Seriously man. Seafood is like all over the place. Sort it out, vastness of the ocean.

 

[Quackers]

Onions and garlic are nice.

I hate Mushrooms

 

[Save_Ferris]

I hate Mushrooms

Amen brotha. How can something be so bland and so overpowering at the same time?

 

[Quackers]

Indeed. And also it carries such a rubbery, disgusting texture!

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I spotted you - RAISINS
And I am not surprised to find you barely connected in the outer rim of the flavor web.

But mushrooms are yummy yum.

 

[Cutlass]

Indeed. And also it carries such a rubbery, disgusting texture!

I can't tolerate mushrooms either.

 

[Aleksey_aka_al]

This graph is cool:

Spoiler :

Reminded me of the movie In Time...

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

You people sadden me with your mushroom hate. Besides, it's bell pepper that's a true affront to proper food.

 

[Cutlass]

I don't know if it's true, but I once heard that bell peppers are the one food that humans will eat that pigs will not....