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92835 t1_jc7is04 wrote

Reply to Recreated Economist's Democracy index chart for Georgia (country) [OC] by atdotge

As much as I understand this isn’t your fault, democracy index is a really really bad way of measuring democracy.

The data is extremely opaque and basically originates in asking an unspecified list of ‘experts’ for their personal assessment of the how the country functions with respect to a large number of questions.

There is no indication whatsoever who the experts are, where they’re from, or why we should take their perception as fact.

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92835 t1_j8mix3f wrote

Reply to comment by wansuitree in [OC] History of how the U.S. economy outstripped the U.K. economy and how Brexit deepened the gap by tabthough

As objective as data hypothetically should be, interpretation is subject to biases. It was to clarify that my interpretation that the graph does not show that large a shock from Brexit was not in bad faith as motivated by a desire to defend Brexit instead being my honest reading of the graph.

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92835 t1_j8dciry wrote

Reply to [OC] Rates of anxiety and depression have spiked since the start of the pandemic by spicer2

It’s very hard to say anything about this data without more context. A 25% relative increase in anxiety and depression in less than three years certainly seems like a lot (even if the data is presented in a way that makes it seem otherwise), but without the context of how variable the statistic was in the years prior, it’s hard to say for sure.

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92835 t1_j8dc8be wrote

Reply to comment by SkokieRob in [OC] Rates of anxiety and depression have spiked since the start of the pandemic by spicer2

Given the x-axis is very condensed I think this can reasonably be called a strike a relative 25% increase (ie. the number of people with anxiety or depression increasing by 25% of its original value) in two and a half years is quite considerable.

I agree it’s a bad way to present the data and hard to really tell the significance of the strike without data from the years before.

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92835 t1_j76yndx wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in W-2 Wage Distribution by Tax Bracket & Gender [OC] by takeasecond

Did you actually look at the data? They are very clearly and visibly unequal. Every bracket under 40% there are more women than men, every bracket above more men than women.

For all brackets above $100,000, there are over twice as many men as women, in the highest categories as much as 10x

This data very visibly shows income inequality between the genders

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