[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[Colon]

Not a single chart, but this site covers a variety of subjects with graphs: https://ourworldindata.org/

The research they did into fertility rates is particularly impressive and should help you dispel of the notion that culture has much to do with it: https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate

 

[Paul in Saudi]

Distribution of Persons Dangerous to the Internal Security of the US (1950) (PDF)

chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/https://www.governmentattic.org/28docs/FBIchartDangIndiv_1950.pdf

 

[Arakhor]

You appear to have a bunch of unnecessary stuff at the start of that URL.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

The bologna process should ensure a certain amount of comparability.

Yes, Germany is now also watering down higher education and turning universities into glorified trade school.

 

[Samson]

Not a single chart, but this site covers a variety of subjects with graphs: https://ourworldindata.org/

The research they did into fertility rates is particularly impressive and should help you dispel of the notion that culture has much to do with it: https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate

That is interesting, but the pedant in me is forced to point out the that is not fertility they are measuring, it is fecundity.

 

[wolfigor]

Seems counter-intuitive, given virtually everyone here (of my generation and later) has a university degree (because it is seen as a prestige thing, and often isn't tied to actual future work). Even more surprising is the greenery in London, given that a very large percentage of the british public has been blue-collar workers or similar historically, and still there is a non negative view of manual or tied white-collar labour (shop positions etc).
That said, in the map Attica is light green (or bordering that) and Thessalonike has colour only for the entire region of Macedonia ( ), so it may just be a map region division issue. Athens, Peireus (both in Attica) & Thessalonike combined have something like 7/10 of the country's population. A more informative map would be about population percentage with a degree, not regions.

I do have a view on this data, andit tends to confirm what you were saying.
The data in the graph talks about people between 25 and 64, from the woirkforce point of view that's two very distinct generations.
People over 50 starter their career in a world where you could land a good job without the need of a universitary degree: a lot of the experience came from working in the specific field.
People below 40 entered (or still entering) the work force in a world where companies just require a universitary degree for everything, regardless if the actual studies are useful at all: it's used as a filter by HR departments.
If we look away from private employment, we can see that the requirements for entering jobs in the public administrations changed and today, de-facto you must have a universitary degree for any public administration job... something that wasn't previously necessary.
Different countries in Europe moved to the first model to the second at different pace and that reflects on the colours in the map.

One can also see greener colours in big urban centers (such as London): that's because those centers are "phasing out" blu collar jobs and generates much larger amounts of jobs requiiring a title: This attracts people with universitary degree from other parts of the country (or from the rest of the world in case of London).

 

[Samson]

Interval-plot showing the mean differences (95% CI) for LDL-C as estimated from the network meta-analysis for every possible pair of interventions [consumption of different types of fat]. Solid lines represent 95% CIs. From this paper. Do note this is taking a very narrow view on "healthy", only looking at LDL. Also note that this sort of meta-analysis is susceptible to missing the effect of confounding factors, for example any fat that is associated with affluence / middle class lifestyle could show up as "healthy" not because of its effect but because the people who eat it are richer. But is does look like lard is not that good for you (shock), and that sunflower oil could be better than olive oil.

 

[Samson]

Moderate alcohol intake (12-24 g/d) is associated with a 30% reduced risk of type 2 diabetes

 

[Kyriakos]

Moderate alcohol intake (12-24 g/d) is associated with a 30% reduced risk of type 2 diabetes

15 packs a year is heavy smoking?
That is roughly one cigarette/day.

 

[Samson]

15 packs a year is heavy smoking?
That is roughly one cigarette/day.

I could very easily be wrong, but I think that means "packs per day/years". So 15 Pack years = 1 pack a day for 15 years, or 10 cigs a day for 30 years, or 3 packs a day for 5 years.

 

[Kyriakos]

I could very easily be wrong, but I think that means "packs per day/years". So 15 Pack years = 1 pack a day for 15 years, or 10 cigs a day for 30 years, or 3 packs a day for 5 years.

That would certainly make more sense. And usually a packet has 20 to 25 cigarettes

 

[hobbsyoyo]

 

[Samson]

So it take about twice the energy to go from Jupiter to Europa than Earth to Neptune, is that right? Very cool chart.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

So it take about twice the energy to go from Jupiter to Europa than Earth to Neptune, is that right? Very cool chart.

Uh, I don't know that this graph allows for that comparison as it doesn't provide enough information on the Sun's gravity well.

I do know that there is a saying that is sort of true - launching into Earth's orbit gets you half way to everywhere in the solar system. While it pales compared to the gravity wells of the gas giants, Earth's gravity well is surprisingly deep and it takes a lot of energy just to get up into orbit. This amount of energy is ~roughly the same amount it takes to go to any other planet. Of course the trick is that your trip would be one-way; you can fall down any other gravity well once you get to it but it'd take a lot of energy to climb back out again.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

 

[Estebonrober]

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-have-no-reason-to-believe-5g-is-safe/

It is worth noting that just because it is not ionizing radiation does not mean it does not cause damage.

Yet, since the FCC adopted these limits based largely on research from the 1980s, the preponderance of peer-reviewed research, more than 500 studies, have found harmful biologic or health effects from exposure to RFR at intensities too low to cause significant heating.

 

[Kyriakos]

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-have-no-reason-to-believe-5g-is-safe/

It is worth noting that just because it is not ionizing radiation does not mean it does not cause damage.

Yet, since the FCC adopted these limits based largely on research from the 1980s, the preponderance of peer-reviewed research, more than 500 studies, have found harmful biologic or health effects from exposure to RFR at intensities too low to cause significant heating.

Do you feel, though, that he made a compelling enough argument, when his closing statement essentially is
"As a society, should we invest hundreds of billions of dollars deploying 5G, a cellular technology that requires the installation of 800,000 or more new cell antenna sites in the U.S. close to where we live, work and play?".

I wouldn't mind if mobile phones completely disappeared, but apparently (going by how he is phrasing his statements) up to now there isn't any real scientific consensus on ties to tumors.

 

[Estebonrober]

Do you feel, though, that he made a compelling enough argument, when his closing statement essentially is
"As a society, should we invest hundreds of billions of dollars deploying 5G, a cellular technology that requires the installation of 800,000 or more new cell antenna sites in the U.S. close to where we live, work and play?".

I wouldn't mind if mobile phones completely disappeared, but apparently (going by how he is phrasing his statements) up to now there isn't any real scientific consensus on ties to tumors.

I think he made a compelling enough argument to stop at 4G for most metro areas until a more thorough evaluation can take place. I say this as a person who has long believed that radio waves were harmless until they became ionizing. Obviously (and upon hindsight duh) that is not the case. So the wise person would take account of what we are dealing with and measure whether the increase tumor rate is worth the 100gbs data download rate.

 

[Arwon]

There's an animated timeline map of documented colonial frontier massacres in Australia up to 1930 at the Guardian today.

In precisely one case was anyone ever convicted, and there are no monuments.

There's believed to be a lot more as yet unverified sites, this should be considered an absolute bedrock.

People often like to pretend this was "a different time" and can't be judged by our modern morality. Many like to think they were done in secret and this history is newly unearthed. Although many massacres definitely went unrecorded except by passing mention of "dispersal", many killings were a matter of public record and were condemned by some in newspapers even at the time.

 

[Lexicus]

While it pales compared to the gravity wells of the gas giants, Earth's gravity well is surprisingly deep and it takes a lot of energy just to get up into orbit. This amount of energy is ~roughly the same amount it takes to go to any other planet. Of course the trick is that your trip would be one-way; you can fall down any other gravity well once you get to it but it'd take a lot of energy to climb back out again.

Isn't the energy requirement to get out of Earth's gravity well pretty drastically increased by the presence of its atmosphere?