Map of the Day

[Brian Howell]

Do not interpret the maps colors as red indicating bad, orange indicating slightly better, and green indicating best. In fact, orange is the best.

[jack saunders]

Flush toilets....or something required at varying levels by government writ.

 

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From: Brian Howell <bdho...@gmail.com>
To: Ipse Dixit <Ipse-...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 2:06 PM
Subject: [Ipse Dixit] Map of the Day

Do not interpret the maps colors as red indicating bad, orange indicating slightly better, and green indicating best. In fact, orange is the best.

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[Brian Howell]

Interesting first guess there, Jack. 

Clue: the map indicates a reaction.

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 3:26 PM, jack saunders <jack...@pacbell.net> wrote:

Flush toilets....or something required at varying levels by government writ.

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[Scott Hotes]

Not a reaction, but maps pretty closely to per-capita income (by country), but this map

actually separates Alaska from the rest of the US...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GDP_nominal_per_capita_world_map_IMF_2008.png

Scott

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[Jack Saunders]

And it lumps all US and all Canada....where per capita income enormously state to state, province to province.  Indoor plumbing and blue jeans are among the few variables that could generate such wide-swath uniformity.

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[Scott Hotes]

OK, fair enough.  But the challenge then is this thing lumps together the Continental

US and Canada, but not Alaska... :)

Scott

[Brian Howell]

I withdraw this map on two grounds:

1. The provenance of the map is seriously in question. I found it here: http://all-that-is-interesting.com/tragedy-world-map. But I've since done what I should have in the first place—seek to validate the data that should underlay the map. Alas, though I found numerous references to the Tragedy Map, it seems to simply be the confection of a Mexican artist: http://cinismoilustrado.com/image/117609140948/. This lack of validation violates both Ipse Dixit's requirements for evidence-based claims and my personal standards for the same. I apologize for this breach.
2. My comments about map colors apparently were incorrect and hence misleading. I have trouble seeing red, especially blends of red, e.g., brown and purple. This is a condition called protanomaly. Put another way, I am an anomalous trichromat. (When we were young, my little sister repeatedly accused me of cheating when I played the board game Candyland with her, because I couldn't tell blue squares from purple ones.) I did use the Mac's ColorMeter utility to examine pixel color values on the map, but I clearly didn't interpret the results well. Next time, I'll ask someone else to validate my color assessments before posting anything involving interpretation of reddish colors.