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This is a dark pattern. It plays with color spectrum, pitting red against violet. Not fair. Roy G. Biv? Now, there are some messed up things like the south --
by gry 16y ago
This is a dark pattern.
It plays with color spectrum, pitting red against violet. Not fair. Roy G. Biv?
Now, there are some messed up things like the south -- it appears severe on state borders, thought the black line probably compounds it.
There is something very interesting and valuable here, yet it doesn't feel honest.
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EDIT: Reviewing the color spectrum red and violet are next to each other. It felt more severe than it was. Perhaps because violet is compressed into 3 percentage points (purple, violet and dark purple), while there is red, orange, orange-yellow, yellow and cream for the "good-ish", all strong and not neutral.
- nhebb 16y agoThis is a dark pattern. That was my thought as well. Plus, Red is used for the 5.0-5.9% range. Red is symbolic of danger, and 5.0-5.9% unemployment isn't great but it's not at the "red alert" level. I would really like to see this map on a global scale.
- gry 16y agoThe little research I did suggests a 4-6% unemployment rate is healthy, so it seems a neutral color would be preferable. Per your mention, red is definitely a warning affordance. Now the places lower than 5%, I want to know why. There's something either insulating them or the coasts are the other extreme. Also, I want to see this as the US pulls out of it. Will the coasts recover first and trickle back in? Or, will the healthy parts of the US grow outward?
- athst 16y agoI agree - the data this depicts is indeed very scary, but unfortunately their use of color is a little manipulative and detracts from it. 10%+ should not be total black - there's no reason to make that the extreme, especially when you consider that the real rate of employment could be around 18-19%, and in the Great Depression it was even worse than that.
- roel_v 16y agoI hope you mean 'real rate of UNemployment' ?