Affirmative action in college admissions likely to be struck down by Supremes

[derspiess]

I don't think cherry picking really applies as a term when you pick what is essentially the current day.  That said, yes it is important to establish that things might change from that, but it isn't inherently dishonest to compare today with the past.

I guess that depends on whether you want to derive anything meaningful from it.  If he was just saying, "Hey, look how cool it is that these two maps are pretty similar" then that's fine.  But I don't think that was his intent.

[CountDeMoney]

Once you've been an offensive lineman for Michigan, it is hard to get excited about taking the step down to being a mere President of the United States.

Oh, brother.  Someone a shovel.

[Ideologue]

Raz doesn't know what he is talking about, of course.

Jimmy Carter swept every southern state but Virginia in '76.  What does that tell us? 

Never, never run an offensive lineman for President.

What has changed that all the yankee republicans have moved south, turning the south into a republican stronghold, while turning the north Democrat.

Here I was thinking all along that the core of GOP support in the South was evangelicals and descendants of the Wallace-ites that Nixon brought in; turns out it's really the hordes of millions of Thurston Howell IIIs who left Newport and Park Avenue for Pascagoula and Mobile.

Their rule is unbearable.  They make us play badminton with them.

[katmai]

Once you've been an offensive lineman for Michigan, it is hard to get excited about taking the step down to being a mere President of the United States.

Oh, brother.  Someone a shovel.

No one has ever accused Michigan men of being humble.

[garbon]

I don't think cherry picking really applies as a term when you pick what is essentially the current day.  That said, yes it is important to establish that things might change from that, but it isn't inherently dishonest to compare today with the past.

I guess that depends on whether you want to derive anything meaningful from it.  If he was just saying, "Hey, look how cool it is that these two maps are pretty similar" then that's fine.  But I don't think that was his intent.

I think you are being deliberately difficult.

[DGuller]

Since maps seem to be in vogue, here is a human development index map for US states:



It appears that 19 of the 20 states with the most developed humans voted for Obama.    Maybe all underdeveloped humans migrated away from the North?

[Razgovory]

I don't understand what I'm looking at here.

[garbon]

I don't understand New Jersey and most developed.

[Ideologue]

Since maps seem to be in vogue, here is a human development index map for US states:



It appears that 19 of the 20 states with the most developed humans voted for Obama.    Maybe all underdeveloped humans migrated away from the North?

SC: bottom of barrel.  Surprise.

[DGuller]

I don't understand New Jersey and most developed.

I do understand it.  Highly developed people are better at understanding things. 

[garbon]

I don't understand New Jersey and most developed.

I do understand it.  Highly developed people are better at understanding things. 

I'm from Massachusetts and California and live in New York. I've a good set of indexes.

[Ideologue]

Highly developed people say "indices."

Can you imagine SC if I didn't live here?  It'd be, like, 1.

[Razgovory]

Seriously, what does the map represent?

[DontSayBanana]

The map: vector of life expectancy at birth, expected years of education, and "standard of living, as indicated by the natural logarithm of gross domestic product per capita at purchasing power parity."

In fairness, at least one of these factors is irrelevant to DG's point.

[DGuller]

Seriously, what does the map represent?

Human development index by US state, oddly enough.