On Nov 12, 2004, at 8:14 PM, JDG wrote:
At 07:02 PM 11/11/2004 -0800 Dave Land wrote:
We've compared the red-blue divide against population denisty, college degrees, IQ, and hoary old slavery maps.
Here's another take: Generosity.
Seeing a mention of it on Eric Zorn's weblog, I took the Catalogue for
Philanthropy's "Generosity Index" (http://tinyurl.com/4xsrv) and colored
it according to red and blue states.
http://www.mccmedia.com/~dland/red-blue-giving/
I am not entirely sure what to make of this - although it would be very
delicious if true. But what is up with using rankings as the sole basis
of the methodology? Shouldn't there be a simpler, straight-numeric way of
doing this analysis?
I would think so, but I was more interested in getting it posted (and
getting back to work) quickly, rather than digging into the underlying
methodology. Yes, I would have preferred to see actual "having per capita"
and "giving per capita" numbers to compare, but I didn't take the time to
find 'em.
Proof of the validity of the Catalogue for Philanthropy's methodology is left to the student as an exercise.
Dave
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