Eurabia = Europe sucks | 78 comments (78 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Look... (4.00 / 3)

Context is a concept The Economist apparently fails to pursue with anything they touch - see the Hirsi Ali comment. The only reason I posted this graph is to point out that the figure in the Economist gives the idea to those who don't study the figure in depth that more Muslims are within the USA than European countries - and look, the USA has no troubles at all! It must all be Europe's faulty social model if they can't even handle their miserable amounts of Muslims...

If the Economist can pile all numbers onto one heap, so can I. It just goes to show that with a larger Muslim society, Europe is in a different stage of integration than the USA is - that's all. It makes no sense to draw parallels based only on the amount of total Muslims present. Comparing between two continents when the USA has a percentage of total population that's as large as France, or the Netherlands, that'd make a first start.

Now the Economist included the percentages as well within their figure, but why the choice to present it the way they have it, and not the way I put up? What's the motivation behind that choice? I'm not a statistical expert, so everyone should feel free to point out where my reasoning is flawed.

by Nomad on Sun Jun 25th, 2006 at 07:57:27 AM EST
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Re: Look... (none / 0)

A representation of these data that captures both views at the same time is a scatter plot (not a bar chart) with population on one axis and muslim population on the other, on a log-log scale. Maybe I'll find time to make that chart later today (should take 15 minutes with R, but B is nagging me to put together some IKEA furniture ;-)

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 25th, 2006 at 08:00:12 AM EST
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And the pity... (none / 0)

...of IKEA furniture is that they contain not a single formula!!

Must be a dismal Sunday... ;)

I'd be keen to learn that on R, too. At my current progress, however, it'd take me six hours, not 15 minutes... Still on the R learning curve.

by Nomad on Sun Jun 25th, 2006 at 08:07:39 AM EST
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Re: And the pity... (none / 0)

Maybe I should e-mail you the code I use to generate each of the graphs I post...

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 25th, 2006 at 08:09:34 AM EST
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That'd be neat! (none / 0)

When I was mucking in my fresher year with Fortran (77, no less!), the best way to learn was to study code from other programs, take it apart with a text book, and write the same program yourself from scrap.

I'd certainly appreciate that.

by Nomad on Sun Jun 25th, 2006 at 08:13:16 AM EST
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Re: And the pity... (4.00 / 3)

We could go for an ET graph-off! Here is my take on the political compass:

by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Sun Jun 25th, 2006 at 09:03:38 AM EST
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Re: And the pity... (none / 0)

I always knew my heart was with the Greens. Those bloody Commie bastards can stay where they are!

by Alex in Toulouse on Sun Jun 25th, 2006 at 09:10:27 AM EST
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Re: And the pity... (none / 0)

Whoa, what software did you use for that?

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 25th, 2006 at 10:13:20 AM EST
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Re: And the pity... (none / 0)

It's a perl script generating imagemagick draw commands. Not very efficient. 98 seconds for an 800x800 png with dual P4 3GHz processors.

by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Sun Jun 25th, 2006 at 10:40:54 AM EST
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Re: And the pity... (none / 0)

I really should look into R.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sun Jun 25th, 2006 at 02:41:25 PM EST
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Re: And the pity... (none / 1)

IKEA furniture also lack a recent comments button.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 25th, 2006 at 08:10:11 AM EST
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Re: And the pity... (none / 1)

I'm sure IKEA are open to suggestions.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Jun 25th, 2006 at 03:06:55 PM EST
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Re: Look... (4.00 / 3)