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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThese 31 charts will destroy your faith in humanity
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/24/these-31-charts-will-destroy-your-faith-in-humanity/?tid=ts_carouselEarlier this week, Rob Wile of Business Insider posted his graph-heavy opus: 31 Charts That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity.
Naturally, we here at Wonkblog were all eager to see the results. But wed quibble a bit with Wiles interpretations of the data. His charts all struck us as horrible news. So were re-analyzing them here with the proper, gloom-heavy spin:
1) Inter-state wars are on the rise since 2002. Zoom in on that pink line:
2) Dictatorships still exist:
3) We havent eradicated human slavery:
4) People around the world are becoming just as lazy as the French:
***the rest of us are just catching on to what the french already knew...there's more to life than work.
pass that really good fromage, s'il vous plaît.
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These 31 charts will destroy your faith in humanity (Original Post)
xchrom
May 2013
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nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)1. They have a sense of humor
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)3. I must pass this on. Priceless. at least in 2013.
In 1913, not so much.
siligut
(12,272 posts)2. The top graph would be more readable as a bar graph
And the slave and hours worked graphs could be re-calibrated for time and overlayed, just to offer more precise data. No wonder the RW has become so extreme, the trends are against them.