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benthib t1_iyb75xh wrote

Why is Democrat's a positive number and Republican a negative number in the legend? Wouldn't the red be "positive" also?

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notspoon OP t1_iybodp8 wrote

It’s just the way the calculations and group by statements worked out, man. I don’t know what to tell you. In order to get the color scale to work properly someone had to be negative and someone had to be positive.

Blame the Phoenicians, or the Greeks, or the developers of R, for putting D over R in the alphabet.

Negative number shouldn’t imply negative connotations either. -1 isn’t evil! It’s just a number. 🤷‍♂️

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benthib t1_iycnzjx wrote

All you had to do is get ride of the - symbol on the bottom, like a child could have done in Windows Paint.

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