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Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:17 am to KG6
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How are those implications any different than just spouting off the popular vote percentages. Because that's all this does is weight the size of the map as per population. Then they color in the votes. So it's now going to show slightly more blue than red. It shows nothing more than what a statement can. But that's not the point of the original map that is nearly completely red.
The original map isn't even intended to show that "more land" won the race. It's intended to show that small geographical areas, which unsurprisingly are going to have similar political beliefs among it's citizens, can control so much area that doesn't agree with them due to population concentration. And you can't just blow that off. We need farmers, we need fisherman, we need people from all geographic areas of our country. And to let certain areas who may only have their well being in mind shouldn't be able to steam roll the rest of the country. It's the whole reasoning behind the Electoral College. It's been an issue since our founding fathers.
OMG.
Look, I'm not speaking on behalf of Snopes. I don't really care what their reasons for posting the map are. I find all of the maps interesting for the information they reveal.
I also think that rural populations mocking, discounting, or whatevering urban populations is just as silly and shortsighted as urban populations doing the same things to rural populations.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:18 am to CAD703X
Ms and La delta representing for Hillary! Who needs jobs when you got a gubment check.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:18 am to CAD703X
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majored in math. want to discuss finite dimensional vector spaces next?
Seems like classes in geography, stats, logic and rhetoric would have done you some good too.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:19 am to CAD703X
Now this really is alternative facts
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:21 am to Old Sarge
quote:No it's the same facts with a visual representation of them based on the population density of the locations show on the map. Neither tells the whole story, but it tells a more accurate story when you can see both.
Now this really is alternative facts
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:23 am to JuiceTerry
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So you'd rather see how vast stretches of tumbleweeds voted.
Except for the part where the country's entire resources are. You know where people actually work to feed a nation, and not just write names on a cup
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:25 am to CAD703X
No, that map makes sense.
It is a map that shows how much many in America have melted since November 6th.
It is a map that shows how much many in America have melted since November 6th.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:25 am to Mo Jeaux
damn, i find that image HUGELY entertaining and just by the up-votes everyone else does too and you're all butthurt because i didn't give proper respect to the damn cartogram?
that wasn't the point but y'all seem mad about it.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:26 am to RobbBobb
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Except for the part where the country's entire resources are. You know where people actually work to feed a nation, and not just write names on a cup
See, it's shite like this to which I was referring.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:28 am to CAD703X
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you're all butthurt
I'm really not.
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y'all seem mad about it.
You started a thread about a map. I find that HUGELY entertaining.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:28 am to CAD703X
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that wasn't the point but y'all seem mad about it.
what was the point?
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:30 am to Salmon
humor?
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:38 am to Mo Jeaux
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I'm really not.
Oh yes, you really are posting like it. I mean, youre finding validation in a distorted map. That's Al Franken level stuff
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:40 am to RobbBobb
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youre finding validation in a distorted map.
Validation for what, exactly?
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:43 am to RobbBobb
quote:He's saying that the "distorted" map provides more information that the other map doesn't. It's not "validation" to find ways to present additional information; it's interesting.
Oh yes, you really are posting like it. I mean, youre finding validation in a distorted map. That's Al Franken level stuff
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:57 am to CAD703X
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majored in math. want to discuss finite dimensional vector spaces next?
Don't know about anybody else, but ima vote "no"
Posted on 1/23/17 at 12:01 pm to CAD703X
You dont even know what you are looking at do you?
Have you taken a statistics course?
Have you taken a statistics course?
Posted on 1/23/17 at 12:02 pm to DaGarun
quote:That reminds me of the time my engineering friend argued he was sober enough to drive home from a party.
Don't know about anybody else, but ima vote "no"
It didn't matter he couldn't understand a simple card game and fell down multiple times; he insisted that since he can solve some complex equation, which none of could confirm nor deny, that was evidence of his current sober state.
We didn't find his argument compelling.
This post was edited on 1/23/17 at 12:04 pm
Posted on 1/23/17 at 12:08 pm to Tigerdev
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You dont even know what you are looking at do you?
Have you taken a statistics course?
nope never.
me unfrozen caveman TD poster. your words are strange therefore i fear them.
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