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I think this is the tweet: https://twitter.com/RogueNotary/status/1101179117574279168 https://twitter.com/RogueNotary/status/1101179117574279168 BTW, I think i
by geofft 8y ago
I think this is the tweet: https://twitter.com/RogueNotary/status/1101179117574279168 https://twitter.com/RogueNotary/status/1101179117574279168
BTW, I think it is not unreasonable to expect that different models of funding or engagement are differently represented on the left and right sides of politics. Contrary to certain views, the left and the right are not two equal, symmetric, graceful wings of a bird, keeping society in balance: they're two different worldviews and sets of fears and priorities. It's not inherently surprising that one would find their business more profitable with a smaller pool of paying customers, and the other finds more profit in a larger pool of casual visitors to whom to show ads, or that one finds more funding from the rich, or that one's worldview requires deeper and more nuanced storytelling than the other to support its conclusions.
- philipov 8y agoThat reminds me of how maps can distort information about populations because one side tends to live in smaller high-density urban centers while the other has a much lower density over a larger land area.
- geofft 8y agohttp://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2016/ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2016/ is a pretty good example of that. A version of the fourth map on that page ("Here is a map of US counties...") is hanging somewhere in the West Wing; one of the ones at the bottom is perhaps more accurate.
- leeoniya 8y agohttps://xkcd.com/1138/ https://xkcd.com/1138/
- Spooky23 8y agoThe US Senate makes those maps meaningful. For every other aspect of government, it’s one man one vote. For the Senate, Wyoming has the same representation as New York, even though the population is less than the Rochester metro area.