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Overshooting ... was Malthus right? | 155 comments (155 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Overshooting ... was Malthus right? (4.00 / 2)

I don't see how "the graph is entirely accurate, or at least statistics derived from the IMF contradict it":

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Jun 9th, 2007 at 05:20:30 PM EST
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Re: Overshooting ... was Malthus right? (4.00 / 2)

IMF stats show a precipitous drop starting in 1994, whereas the graph shows a more steady decline from 1990. Thus the graph is not "entirely accurate" or at least contradicts the IMF stats, but the "overall picture" is something that can be used for the general point that killing off a lot of people is not a particularly effective way to reduce overpopulation.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Sat Jun 9th, 2007 at 06:02:05 PM EST
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Did you just make that graph? Nice feat.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Sun Jun 10th, 2007 at 06:34:53 AM EST
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Re: P.S. (none / 0)

It takes 6 lines of R code. I should post it on the wiki.

The most time-consuming part of it was to type innthe data as the tab-delimited file from the IMF was garbled.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 10th, 2007 at 08:40:24 AM EST
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R source code (none / 0)

Now added to the ET Wiki's R Sample Code page.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 10th, 2007 at 05:00:13 PM EST
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