{"id":399,"date":"2006-08-30T14:37:53","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T14:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2006-08-30T14:37:53","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T14:37:53","slug":"fight-the-power-with-statistical-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Fight The Power With Statistical Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(again via <a href=http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/007921.html>Making Light<\/a>)<br \/>\nA chap in the US named Ben Hyde runs a blog where stats and politics get combined.  <a href=http:\/\/enthusiasm.cozy.org\/archives\/2006\/08\/1243\/>This post here<\/a> is absolutely fascinating.<br \/>\nIn it, Hyde charts all the US Senators on a graph, based entirely on where they generally sit on social issues and where they sit on economic issues.  It&#8217;s just like the <a href=http:\/\/www.politicalcompass.org\/>political compass<\/a>.<br \/>\nThen, for each senate vote, a line is drawn to separate the senators who voted yea from those who voted nay.  Usually it isn&#8217;t possible to separate the two sides entirely with a line, but most of the time very few senators end up stuck on the wrong side.  This shows it&#8217;s on to something interesting.<br \/>\n(The charts on his site show the line for lots of senate votes- it&#8217;s a half-meg changing chart so may take a moment to load.  The one on the left shows all the senators that fit the line division, the one on the right-hand side shows all the senators that don&#8217;t &#8211; there are hardly any senators on the right-hand chart.)<br \/>\nFurthermore, you can tell how voting split from the angle of the line.  If it&#8217;s up-down, then the split was based on economic issues; if it&#8217;s left-right, the split is based on social issues.<br \/>\nThen it gets very very interesting indeed.  Hyde says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The model is extremely accurate; around 95% these days. Amazingly you don<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(again via Making Light) A chap in the US named Ben Hyde runs a blog where stats and politics get combined. This post here is absolutely fascinating. In it, Hyde charts all the US Senators on a graph, based entirely on where they generally sit on social issues and where they sit on economic issues. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fight The Power With Statistical Analysis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-6r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}