A couple of days ago, I received my voter's pamphet for the August 2nd primary here in the Seattle area. You can see the information in it by going to the King County election site: https://king… (View Post)

In college basketball contests in the US, there are stock phrases for the teams left after the first rounds of competition; "Sweet Sixteen", "Final Four", and, though less common,… (View Post)

If you are going to compare median family incomes in the US over time, you should recognize that family structures have changed in the US. Bluntly, there are far more families that are headed by a si… (View Post)

StillWaters - I sympathize with the difficulty of finding an honest graph. It is one of the reasons I have started thinking about re-learning the R language. As I recall, it is fairly easy to constru… (View Post)

Pedant comment: That chopped-off bar chart at the trading economics site is very bad practice, since it is visually deceiving. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/government-spending-to-gdp (View Post)