[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[Bamspeedy]

If at the end of the year the IRS sends me a check for $5000 I'm going to view them differently than if I have to send them a check for $5000.

 

[Arwon]

So if I understand that correctly, the same teacher can score really well when teaching grade 4, but really badly when teaching grade 5? Or rather, how well a teacher teaches at one grade has no relation to how well the teacher teaches another grade?

That seems counterintuitive. I'm assume the article is using the graph to suggest that the metric of performance is flawed.

Yeah. Teacher ratings can’t tell good teachers from bad ones

 

[Save_Ferris]

It would be better if we replaced Congress with Paris Hilton?

 

[Cutlass]

It would be better if we replaced Congress with Paris Hilton?

It would raise the average intelligence. And she's a dingbat.

 

[Mise]

She probably inherited less of her wealth too.

 

[Save_Ferris]

She probably inherited less of her wealth too.

She probably cares about her own money less, and isn't as willing to sell out.

 

[Traitorfish]

She didn't have the guy who stole her cake arrested. Can't say I see the US Congress being that benign.

 

[Mise]

She's had less extramarital sex than Newt Gingrich.

 

[Save_Ferris]

She has a better history and she's much less fake.

 

[Yeekim]

I'm surprised at the rather high approval rates of the IRS.

Ours sits at 76%. Police is at 84% and parliament is at 44% (nov 2011 data).

 

[Winner]

Ours sits at 76%. Police is at 84% and parliament is at 44% (nov 2011 data).

Approval ratings in the Czech Rep. in 2009:

the Constitutional Court
the President
the Cabinet (the government, but I guess this term might be confusing for English speakers)
the Senate (upper house of Parliament)
the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of Parliament, much more powerful than the Senate)

It's probably better now, but still...

 

[Winner]

The Economist has a nice interactive chart showing the state of nuclear energy in the world. Highly recommended.

(I don't say this often, but go France)

 

[Mise]

Yeah, EDF for the win.

 

[Monsterzuma]

d'oh @ displaying absolute numbers rather than percentage of total power generation...

 

[Mise]

It has a dropdown ^^

 

[GinandTonic]

d'oh @ displaying absolute numbers rather than percentage of total power generation...

It has a dropdown ^^

This represents my first and second reactions to the chart.

 

[Cutlass]

Little behind the curve on Japan. They may not be using any nuclear in the future.

 

[Winner]

Little behind the curve on Japan. They may not be using any nuclear in the future.

Then they'll be committing an economic suicide, sure as Germany.

 

[Arwon]

Eh, not really. They can just take all the nuclear subsidy money and do something else with it.

 

[Winner]

Eh, not really. They can just take all the nuclear subsidy money and do something else with it.

Like what?

And please, no BS about solar or wind power reliably covering ~30% of Japan's energy needs. The only real alternatives are coal and gas/oil, both of which would cost more than nuclear and increase the country's strategic vulnerability.