[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[JohannaK]

I'm not British or even a native Anglo speaker, but can I join in the mirth?

 

[Cutlass]

I'm not sure why that's laughable.

It's an interesting discrepancy. I don't really know what the explanation for it is. Unless it's simply due to the long tradition of American religiosity.

It's partly a failure of the educational system. Partly excessive fringe religious doctrine. And there's a lot of politics, group identity, and partisan ideological division. That is, many people believe those things because they've been told to by the leaders who they've been told that they must trust.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

It is the same for us all.

 

[Borachio]

Well, I remember being told I had to think for myself. And the general atmosphere was of questioning everything.

 

[warpus]

You know that "I don't know.. therefore aliens" guy?

In America there's also a "I don't know.. therefore God" guy.. He's in a whole bunch of people's heads. He talks to Americans when they're sleeping and convinces them of silly things.

 

[CavLancer]

You are a great traveler warpus, don't miss the greatest journey a human being can embark on.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I'm mostly guessing here, but I think it might have something to do with the electoral system and the First Amendment/Free Speech obsession.
The first one makes it impossible for smaller parties to prosper, so the radicals join the big parties instead of forming their own clubs and co-opt them to some degree. There are hardly any fundamentalists in Germany's mainstream conservative party because they have their own party.
The second one implies that any opinion is equal and people are entitled to express it, thus debates that were settled decades or centuries ago in other societies are still a matter of controversy. Since the most radical voices are also the loudest, this leads to vocal miorities being overrepresented, which leads to dumb compromises in school curricula and creates a false impression in people who are on the fence and don't particularly care about the issue.
This doesn't only apply to eolution, but also to climate change and a multitude of conspiracy theories.

 

[warpus]

You are a great traveler warpus, don't miss the greatest journey a human being can embark on.

We all have different paths in life. The religious path I travelled through for the first 15 or so years of my life.

So I've been down that path and it's not for me. If God exists, it seems he has something else in plans for me. And if he doesn't exist, no big loss.

Anyway, here's some data in pie graph form:

 

[gay_Aleks]

Canada has been exporting a lot of oil.

Maple oil, that is.

I'm here for the whole night!

 

[luiz]

The evolution of the Polo Ralph Lauren horse:

I'm unhappy with the chart because the original horse was actually smaller than the first one they show.

 

[cybrxkhan]

This graph is horrific on so many levels I just had to post it here:

 

[Heretic_Cata]

There's a special place in hell for people who believe that.

 

[madviking]

what's the units on the y axis? BSes?

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I'm definitely not a fan of religion, but calling it the "Christian Dark Ages" is unfair. The breakdown of the western empire's society, economy and infrastrucure must have been a more significant factor than Christianity.

And how the F are they measuring "scientific advancement" anyway ? How do they even define science ? If it is theoretical knowledge, there hasn't really been much before the scientific method became a thing anyway. If they define it as technological progress, I simply don't buy that graph. Some technology was lost, but there were also important new developments before the renaissance.

 

[JohannaK]

Hasn't anyone shared it here before? I've seen it a few times before.

 

[Monsterzuma]

Romans only ever got wealthier and more advanced as a result by expanding their territories.

 

[Samson]

I'm definitely not a fan of religion, but calling it the "Christian Dark Ages" is unfair. The breakdown of the western empire's society, economy and infrastrucure must have been a more significant factor than Christianity.

I assume what they mean is the european/north African dark ages, as opposed to east asia which did not have a similar issue. I agree it is a bad choice of term.

Romans only ever got wealthier and more advanced as a result by expanding their territories.

I thought this. They may have made some significant advances early in their history, particularly in the fields of military science and social organisation, but to show them advancing steadily over their history has to be wrong.

 

[cybrxkhan]

what's the units on the y axis? BSes?

My guess is teenage redditor euphoria on /r/atheist.

Hasn't anyone shared it here before? I've seen it a few times before.

Never seen it here actually.

I assume what they mean is the european/north African dark ages, as opposed to east asia which did not have a similar issue. I agree it is a bad choice of term.

I suppose it's an unintentionally Eurocentric take on world history, which only considers the Mediterranean and Europe. Generally people who talk about "lol the whole world was complete crap during the dark ages" don't realize there was also, well, the rest of the world doing a-okay. And actually Europe was alright too, they weren't any bastion of awesomeness, but it wasn't like Europe suddenly turned into Mordor or anything.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

There may have been a bit of a dark age in Western Europe, but it barely lasted 200 years. Things got back on track during the Carolingian Renaissance. The later Italian Renaissance was a rebirth of silly superstitions and wasteful conspicuous consumption at least as much as it was of anything useful. It was then that medical cannibalism and witch hunts came back into vogue.

 

[Domen]

Things got back on track during the Carolingian Renaissance. The later Italian Renaissance was a rebirth of silly superstitions and wasteful conspicuous consumption at least as much as it was of anything useful. It was then that medical cannibalism and witch hunts came back into vogue.