look at the pretty colors

From numbers tabulated by The Glittering Eye: the horizontal axis is the tax-consumption ratio, the vertical is the logarithm of income per capita. One extreme outlier is omitted, without guilt as it’s a special case.

In a perfect world the dots would represent counties, scaled for population, shaded according to the popular vote. But any of that would mean exerting effort.

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2 Responses to look at the pretty colors

  1. That’s fascinating. Now if I only knew what to make of it . . .

  2. Dave Schuler says:

    And may I assume the outlier was D. C.?

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