Interesting graphs and charts department

[glatt]

Not really a graph or chart. But a correlation.

So you like bitter flavors, do you, you antisocial jerk?

Abstract

In two studies, we investigated how bitter taste preferences might be associated with antisocial personality traits. Two US American community samples (total N = 953; mean age = 35.65 years; 48% females) self-reported their taste preferences using two complementary preference measures and answered a number of personality questionnaires assessing Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, everyday sadism, trait aggression, and the Big Five factors of personality. The results of both studies confirmed the hypothesis that bitter taste preferences are positively associated with malevolent personality traits, with the most robust relation to everyday sadism and psychopathy.

Emphasis mine

[xoxoxoBruce]

I believe it, in fact would extend it to spicy hot as well.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The government, specifically the Bureau of Labor Statistics has used the Census Bureau, to conduct the American Time Use Survey, since 2003. They've come up with graphs of a number of activities, 8 of which can be found here.

This is 2 of them.

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I believe it, in fact would extend it to spicy hot as well. :

Hear hear. I knew a woman that put jabenero pepper sauce on the tacos she ate every night. Every night. So much that her lips would chap. This coincided with an increasingly angry and unforgiving demeanor. I wondered at the time if there was a correlation. Very interesting.

I wonder if the converse holds true. Do people with a sweet tooth have a sweet demeanor?

[glatt]

Deja vu

Didn't Clinton have two terms?

[xoxoxoBruce]

No, the other term was Ho-insky.

[xoxoxoBruce]

This is a bunch of randomly gathered bullshit, in a pile by WaPo.

It's very important to note that the metrics we used have a lot of built-in bias. Questions have been raised about racial bias in the SAT and IQ testing. What's more, college is more accessible to people of higher economic status. (There's a slight correlation between the final scores and the percentage of the state that is white, but not a terribly strong one.) Given how hard it is to identify objective metrics of intelligence, we worked with what we had.

For the state's avg IQ they used this study. pdf

Abstract
The purpose of this study is threefold. First, an estimate of state IQ is derived and its strengths and limitations are considered. To
that end, an indicator of downward bias in estimating state IQ is provided. Two preliminary causal models are offered that predict
state IQ. These models were found to be highly predictive of state IQ, yielding multiple R's of 0.83 and 0.89. Second, the extent to which state IQ predicts state outcome variables (e.g., gross state product, health, violent crime, and government effectiveness) is estimated. State IQ shows positive correlations with gross state product, health, and government effectiveness and negative correlations with violent crime. These results are consistent with the extent to which IQ predicts outcomes at the level of the individual. Third, a research agenda is provided for improving estimates of state IQ, identifying factors that cause differences in state IQ, and delineating the role of IQ in predicting important variables.

The models were "highly predictive" of a number that nobody knows?? WTF??
Sounds to me like "how do it know?" The whole paper reads like a circle jerk.
The only thing I see that rings true, is PA is solidly in the middle, as it is in all the graph/charts we've seen on every subject.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Japan has a few volcanos.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The most common word used in online dating profiles by state.
I suspect the black dot tagged International is supposed to be DC, but it's not in the right location.

[Gravdigr]

Now that's an interesting chart/map/graph/thing.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Seems marriage isn't the attraction it used to be. I told ya lettin' 'em vote and wear shoes would mess things up.

[classicman]

Delaware didn't even get one.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by classicman

Delaware didn't even get one.

Yeah. There's something funny going on with DC/MD/Del labels.

I think the DC dot is supposed to be for MD, and the MD line is supposed to be for Del, and DC is supposed to be blank. It's not a state after all.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Gospel may apply to the Delmarva Peninsula.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The PEW again. How much the citizens of each country believe without a belief in a deity morality is not possible vs wealth.