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Inutilisable t1_j9pis7d wrote

Reply to comment by electrons-streaming in NY Times data visualization is Russian propaganda. Uses population for circle size instead of GDP. by electrons-streaming

> Designed to be deceiving

The burden of proof for this statement is on you and it’s heavy. If we can make claim like this then maybe I could declare that you are a - check notes - a pro military industrial complex propagandist and your rhetoric is designed to -turn page- plant the seed of an ideological purity spiral.

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electrons-streaming OP t1_j9p914b wrote

Reply to comment by Th3S1l3nc3 in NY Times data visualization is Russian propaganda. Uses population for circle size instead of GDP. by electrons-streaming

The article is about how Russia was not isolated from trade and instead the world fractured into trade blocs. The appropriate data to demonstrate this would be either GDP or trade flows. Using population gives an intentionally misleading picture, because India seems like it is as valuable a trade partner as 2 United States and the Eu combined. The idea that the population is what matters is a central Russian propaganda point and this data visualization is designed to be deceiving and support that point.

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electrons-streaming OP t1_j9p8zty wrote

Reply to comment by JPAnalyst in NY Times data visualization is Russian propaganda. Uses population for circle size instead of GDP. by electrons-streaming

The article is about how Russia was not isolated from trade and instead the world fractured into trade blocs. The appropriate data to demonstrate this would be either GDP or trade flows. Using population gives an intentionally misleading picture, because India seems like it is as valuable a trade partner as 2 United States and the Eu combined. The idea that the population is what matters is a central Russian propaganda point and this data visualization is designed to be deceiving and support that point.

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randomizeme1234 t1_j9p8y2s wrote

Reply to NY Times data visualization is Russian propaganda. Uses population for circle size instead of GDP. by electrons-streaming

Disappointing, but in keeping with an ideologically confused take. Unfortunately they become part of the problem in their selective use of quotes and and the glossing over of history, let alone the atrocities committed. This is not something one can be above... any pretense to be objective is absurd. Attention: this is not a drill.

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ahorin OP t1_j9p8u7q wrote

Reply to comment by DuckDuckGoose42 in Average number of car miles per year per capita, broken down by trip miles - Useful for evaluating EV ranges and EV vs PHEV! [OC] by ahorin

The full explanation for the dataset is here: US DOT link

The dataset breaks it down into "Population Staying at Home" and "Population Not Staying at Home" by day, so the "Population Staying at Home" is the difference of the Total US Population (~326M) and the "Population Not Staying at Home", or the population who take at least a trip in a day.

The paragraph that defines a trip is:

>Trips are defined as movements that include a stay of longer than 10 minutes at an anonymized location away from home. Home locations are imputed on a weekly basis. A movement with multiple stays of longer than 10 minutes before returning home is counted as multiple trips. Trips capture travel by all modes of transportation. including driving, rail, transit, and air.

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elibryan OP t1_j9p4p3o wrote

Reply to comment by cepegma in [OC] Whose gas is this?! 29 years of CO2e greenhouse gas emissions by elibryan

This poster emphasizes past accountability and doesn't show recent progress, but the U.S. / E.U. actually have reduced per-capita CO2e emissions since 2000. We still have a lot to make up for, but some credit where it's due. So if we've "changed direction" (maybe, slightly?!) then the next questions might be... Are we moving fast enough? And if we have this "carbon debt", how do we pay it back to other countries/people that are most affected?

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