Scatter Plot of States Comparing Political Leaning to Violent Crime [OC]

    by jcsimms

    10 Comments

    1. Numerous_Recording87 on

      What do the axes mean? The size of the circles looks like population. Why not use the two letter abbreviations?

    2. Bad design. the relationship between the two variable isn’t clear, it should be abreviations not full names, no legends for the bubble sizes, uneven axis….

      A graph that gives us no more information than before is a useless one.

    3. Would love to see some metric of social support systems, or mental health care ratings or some other metrics that might show stronger correlation and might themselves be correlated with “more conservatism”

      Poverty rates or income inequality is always a good metric to check for crime correlations

      This chart alone doesn’t show strong correlation to me, “how conservative a state is” is a fuzzy measurement at best in my opinion

    4. greensandgrains on

      Someone’s gotta explain to me how the “live free or die” state has such low crime.

    5. Mythicalnematode on

      This is absolutely not beautiful, and clearly not a strong correlation by any means so what’s the point?

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