Articles Tagged with “Statistics”
14/08/2008: 54 Percent
BBC News has an article claiming that:
The new projections suggestion that by 2050, minorities will account for 54% of the [US] population.
Ummm… wouldn’t that be 100% then?
22/06/2007: Political Map of the UK
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The Axes
A two-dimensional graph requires two axes — that is, two sets of scales on which the data points must be assessed. In politics there are many candidate axes, some listed below, of which we can only choose two:
- Traditional Left–Right division. Left– and Right-wing ideologies encompass a whole variety of different policy areas and are the standard method of classifying a political party.
- Libertarian–Authoritarian. This is a method of classifying parties according to how “free” they aim for citizens to be.
- Environmentalism. You could assess a party by how friendly its policies are to the environment.
- Euroskepticism. You could assess a party on whether it is pro– or anti-EU.
- Atlanticism. You could assess a party on whether it is pro– or anti-US.
I’ve chosen the first two from that list, as I felt they were likely to provide the most interesting picture of politics in the UK…
Browser Size Survey
In a discussion in the alt.html.critique newsgroup a few interesting questions were raised:
- What is an average screen size in pixels?
- Do people tend to surf with their browser maximised? Or only taking up a smaller portion of their screen?
- Are people with smaller screens more likely to maximise their browser?
- So what is an average browser width in pixels?…
Athens 2004 Medal Distribution
The other day I was looking at the medals table for the 2004 Olympic Games. Countries like China tend to do very well at the Olympics and it struck me that this is mainly on account of their large population. So I decided to do my own medals table, factoring in population…