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Series_G t1_ixoz86f wrote

I'm honestly glad you are looking to this data. However, you keep posting these scatter plots without any SUBSTANTIVE findings. In your explanatory text you said alot but didn't provide the actual SUBSTANTIVE findings. What did you learn about Repubs and Dems, incarceration and so on through this exercise?

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terrykrohe OP t1_ixpam8r wrote

SUBSTANTIVE findings ...
1 – There is a non-random, top/bottom, Dem/Rep pattern.
2 – Rep states are always on the negative side.
3 – In all of the previous posts, there has been a nagging thought: Is there some way to quantify that some correlations are more important? The "impact" quantity does so (I think): the evangelical-incarceration correlation for the Dem states sticks out ... is this a one-time coincidence? ... will it be so for other 'response' metrics?
What did you learn about Repubs and Dems ...?
The truth of 1 and 2: Thanksgiving politics arguments are NOT just "my opinion, your opinion" – the Rep states are less productive, more obese, more suicidal, have less life expectancy, more infant mortality, more accidental deaths, receive more federal funds than they give in taxes, have a higher opioid dispensing rate, higher serious crime rate, spend less on education, have lower median incomes ... (most of the foregoing have been previously posted).
... jeez, the statistical improbability of "150 million voters, acting individually, separate(ing) the fifty states into two such disparate groups" is just plain awe-fully "mysterious".
(The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.)

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Series_G t1_ixqalm2 wrote

Yep. There you go. Very nicely done. On another note: Did you need to munger together a bunch of data for this? What sources did you use?

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terrykrohe OP t1_ixt7x8n wrote

What sources did you use?
... see post 14Apr22 which presents the chosen response metrics data with source citations
... FYI, "missing persons" has a random pattern (posted 28Oct21)

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phdoofus t1_ixp0wkr wrote

It's like they're obsessed with plotting data and generating statistics but not in analyzing data or saying if their statistics rule out some kind of causation or hypothesis. How is the data 'beautiful' if it doesn't illuminate? Certain it's not because it's aesthetically pleasing. Maybe they're in competition for some sort of 'Spurious Correlations' award?

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Series_G t1_ixqc0o8 wrote

I was a little hard on the OP, but they nailed it....

Red states are more obese, less productive, more incarcerating, and so on...Really great stuff.

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