Gathered Statistics

[GoodGame]

Looks kind of like a Mobius strip

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Source: Angus Maddison, via O.E.C.D.

Source: Angus Maddison, via O.E.C.D.

f(N) - probability of two people in a group of N people sharing a birthday

 

[GoodGame]

Comparison of meat and milk from bovines and bovine clones (a.k.a. Like Dolly)

 

[Elta]

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f(N) - probability of two people in a group of N people sharing a birthday

Hmmm, I was told in a Scientific American article sometime back that 34% of people are born in March, April and in May despite it being only 25% of the year.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Oh, but that equation assumes random distribution of birthdays throughout the year. Conditions that you said would alter it a bit.

Interesting statistic though. Something about the summer months perhaps?

 

[Narz]

Link to video.

 

[Elta]

Interesting, but old I take it. In 2007 the median household income was 81K

 

[Narz]

Not sure where the creator got his data. I liked the visual representation though. What people think of as "rich people" (people with $200K incomes for example or even $1m income) are still just ants compared to the likes of the super-rich.

 

[Elta]

Indeed.


I came here to say that in the U.S. we recycle 98% of lead.


It makes me wonder what we can take away from the way it is recycled and apply it to plastic.

 

[Cutlass]

Lead isn't in nearly as many consumer products. People recycle lead, and to a lesser extent other metals, because the scrap is in the hands of business people who earn money recycling it.

 

[GoodGame]

Indeed.


I came here to say that in the U.S. we recycle 98% of lead.


It makes me wonder what we can take away from the way it is recycled and apply it to plastic.

This article is interesting, however. At least European plastic seems to end up in Chinese manufacturing.

http://www.cibmagazine.com.cn/html/Print/Show.asp?id=781&on_the_scrap_heap.html

I'd say if there is any difference, it's probably due to lack of transportation. E.g. lack of cost effective manufacturing uses for recycled plastics versus scrap metals, or a lack of connection to manufacturers that would use recyled plastics as an input.

 

[Cutlass]

And the cheapness of just throwing it away....

 

[GoodGame]

And the cheapness of just throwing it away....

But since it's initial production is tied to petroleum, it's really not that cheap.

I imagine some day it'll be someone's job to root through the land fills trying to dig up the empty drink bottles.

 

[Cutlass]

The production of plastics has a cost. The disposal of it has not much cost to the disposer. And that is because the people throwing things away do not pay the full cost of doing so. It is cheaper to simply throw it away than it is to recycle it. And because of that, not as much of it ends up in the recycle part of the waste stream. That is why the idea of placing deposits on more containers, of charging household waste pickup by volume or weight, are spreading.

 

[Earthling]

In 2007 the median household income was 81K

I don't know where you got that data but that's definitely not right either.

 

[Elta]

I don't know where you got that data but that's definitely not right either.

Department of Labor, via Scientific American Magazine.

 

[peter grimes]

Here's what the Census has to say:

Real median household income in the United States climbed 1.3 percent between 2006 and 2007, reaching $50,233, according to a report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. This is the third annual increase in real median household income.

That's a pretty far cry from 81k. I wonder what the source of the discrepancy is?

 

[Elta]

Here's what the Census has to say:


That's a pretty far cry from 81k. I wonder what the source of the discrepancy is?

I looked into it, it is because they added the median male income - 47K to the median female income 34k.

It doesn't really make sense to add it like that, but I could see where they are coming from I guess.

 

[peter grimes]

That's completely bogus, then!
I'm not versed in statistics, but I can't see how that would make any sense at all. It presupposes that the average person is paired with someone of the opposite sex in a 2-income partnership. I don't doubt that there are many people who that describes, but I doubt it's such a majority that it makes sense to talk about it as representing the average (which is what median means, right?)

 

[Integral]

I'm back with another graph!

The x-axis is years; the y-axis is income (in log scale). The content of the graph is the tax rate: the brighter the (year, income) combination is, the higher the tax rate for that income in that year. Enjoy.

the good source.