Lies, Damn Lies & Statistical Maps
Geographic representations of opinion populations are hopelessly misleading. Here's an only slightly better map of election results.
Throughout all the media coverage on and after election night, this was really bugging me, that all the networks and papers use maps of the USA to represent opinion. These psychologically mislead you to believe that the vast majority of America is pro-Bush. A simple pie chart will do, thank you.
The larger issue is that we as a society have inadequate means for being self-reflective--for explicitly representing the variety of opinions that exist so that society as a whole may behold them--to answer the collective's as-yet-unanswerable question: "what is on my mind?"
Throughout all the media coverage on and after election night, this was really bugging me, that all the networks and papers use maps of the USA to represent opinion. These psychologically mislead you to believe that the vast majority of America is pro-Bush. A simple pie chart will do, thank you.
The larger issue is that we as a society have inadequate means for being self-reflective--for explicitly representing the variety of opinions that exist so that society as a whole may behold them--to answer the collective's as-yet-unanswerable question: "what is on my mind?"
posted by Pyramis at 7:22 PM
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