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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Politics and Fatal Car Accidents???
This table is from and AlterNet article found here. Any explanation? Commenters suggest rural-urban divide. One thing sure, Wyoming is not a good place to drive.
Here's an example where analysts are just looking for something to analyze. It's like trying to determine if payday is on Friday, how many flapjacks does it take to cover a dog house. Why even bother to try to make sense of how people vote and how they drive. There are so many other variables.
That's the oddest juxtaposition of data I've seen in a long time. But, as Mark Twain mentioned, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
True but again, Red vs Blue has higher teen pregnancy and higher divorce rates among other things. They also tend to get more free stuff from government
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Here's an example where analysts are just looking for something to analyze. It's like trying to determine if payday is on Friday, how many flapjacks does it take to cover a dog house. Why even bother to try to make sense of how people vote and how they drive. There are so many other variables.
ReplyDeleteIf 37 pancakes will shingle a dog, how long will it take a grasshopper with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle?
DeleteDoes the term Budweiser drinking, race car fanatic, redneck ring a bell?
ReplyDeleteThere has to be more to it than that, I hope. What if it is the Blue counties in the Red States?
DeleteThat's the oddest juxtaposition of data I've seen in a long time. But, as Mark Twain mentioned, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
ReplyDeleteTrue but again, Red vs Blue has higher teen pregnancy and higher divorce rates among other things. They also tend to get more free stuff from government
DeleteRed as in Road Rage. Higher deaths. Seems logical.
ReplyDeleteBear has gone to hibernate. See you in the spring.
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Good night Bear. Sleep well. See you when the weather warms up.
DeleteBut it's hard to hold a bottle of Jack Daniels in one hand, steer with the other and try and run over the opossum for dinner.
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