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[[Graph juxtaposing IQ and religiosity, with religiosity on the x-axis and IQ on the y-axis]]
Average Intelligence Quotient: IQs for countries from Lynn, Harvey, and Nyborg (2009) Intelligence, volume 37, pages 11-15. IQs for states from McDaniel (2006) Intelligence, volume 34, pages 607-619
Religiosity: Percentage of public that answered "yes" to the question "Is religion an important part of your daily life?" from Diener, Tay, and Meyers (2011 August 1) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Polling conducted by the Gallup Organization.
[[Graph is concave down, as IQ decreases as religiosity increases. The left side of the graph at 15-20% religiosity includes Sweden, Estonia, and Denmark, at IQs of about 100. The right side of the graph has many African countries, between 90-100% religiosity, IQs ranging between 60 and 90. The US is located at (65%, 97), France at (26%, 97), India at (85%, 84), Canada (43%, 102), and UK at (32%, 100). There are several dozen more countries on the graph, in addition to unlabeled points for the various US states.]]
{{title-text: Before it's written a hundred times in the comments, please note that I realize correlation does not imply causation! Correlation does not imply causation!! Correlation does not imply causation!!!}}
http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=619
[[ A two part graph ]] / [[ Left half heading: "Deaths in the U.S. in the last ten years" ]] / [[ A tall blue column represents the deaths due to "Cancer": 5.61 million. ]] / [[ A thin blue line, almost no height at all, represents deaths due to "Terrorist Attacks": 2,977 ]]
[[ Right half heading: "Money spent by the U.S. in the last ten years" ]] / [[ A small red column represents the "National Cancer Institute": $50 billion ]] / [[ A tall red column, matching the tall blue column at the left, represents the "Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan": $1.26 Trillion ]]
{{alt: Ten years after the start of the Afghanistan War, here's a look at where US priorities lie. }}
{{title: Sorry for the size of today's comic. I wanted to draw it to scale and couldn't make the terrorist attack bar any less than one pixel. }}
{{keywords: war, politics, money, budget, graph, plot}}
http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=594
Annual Taxes Paid Versus Money Received / [["Federal Spending Received Per Capita" on x-axis, "Federal Taxes Paid Per Capita" on y-axis]] / Red: States that voted Republican in 3 or 4 of the last 4 presidential elections / Purple: States that voted twice for each party / Blue: States that voted Democratic in 3 or 4 of the elections / Data from the Tax Foundation for 2004, taxfoundation.org / {{Alt text: Next time right-wing pundits complains about government handouts, show them this chart. Also note that the Tax Foundation is considered by many to be a conservative organization.}} / {{keywords: plot, graph, politics, spending, budget, deficit}}
http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=575
[[Graph with a y-axis (vertical line) for Happiness and an x-asis (horizontal line) for Intelligence.)]] / [[Low intelligence, high happiness]] Ignorance is bliss / [[Increased intelligence, mid-ranged happiness]] Doesn't understand the world and knows he or she is suffering because of it. / [[Increased intelligence, more happiness]] Getting by and appreciates it could be worse.]] / [[Increased intelligence, high happiness]] Has a pretty good idea how the world works, isn't bothered by unknowns, and is living well because of it. / [[Increased intelligence, no happiness]] Everything is hopeless. / [[Increased intelligence, happiness is so high it's breaking through the top of the chart]] Discovers the secrets of the Universe while hanging out in strip clubs.
{{alt text: Feel free to print out this comic and write in your friends' and co-workers' names in the appropriate locations.}}
http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=543
[[ This comic presents a sort of "genealogy chart". The chart is titled "PROOF FOR EVOLUTION".]] / [[ At the top level: "Creationism", which divides into "Young Earth Creationism" and "Old Earth Creationism". ]] / [[ "Young Earth Creationism" begat "Scientific Creationism", which then split into "Modern Young Earth Creationism" and "Neo-creationism". ]] / [[ "Neo-creationism" then splits into "Abrupt Appearance Theory" and "Intelligent Design". ]] / [[ Moving back up to the top, below "Creationism", the "Old Earth Creationism" branch divides into "Gap Creationism" and "Day-Age Creationism".]] / [[ "Day-Age Creationism" splits into "Progressive Creationism" and "Evolutionary Creationism". ]] / [[ Finally, "Evolutionary Creationism" becomes "Theistic Evolution". ]]
{{ Alt-Text: Finally, the indisputable proof for evolution that we've all been waiting for. }} / {{ Title: It's actually difficult to draw a simple family tree like this because there has been so much intermixing between different forms of creationism. I guess you could say that the history of creationism is full of inbreeding. }} / {{key words: atheism, religion, evolution, graph}}
http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=525
Belief in Evolution Versus National Wealth
Belief in Evolution Versus National Wealth / [["Gross domestic product per capita*" on x-axis, "Percent of the public that believes in evolution+" on y-axis]] / [[* GDP adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP). Data from the CIA World Factbook]] / [[+ Percent of adults that answered "true" to the question "Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals." From Jon Miller et al., Science, Aug 2006]] / Plot or graph shows the countries Turkey, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Poland, Estonia, Hungary, Portugal, Czech Republic, Malta, Slovakia, Greece, Italy, Spain, Finland, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Spain, United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Denmark, Iceland, and the United States of America (USA). Each is color-coded by its geographic region. / {{Alt text: Luxembourg was also included in the evolution survey, but its GDP per capita is insane, so I left it off the plot.}}
http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=559
{{This comic has three panel: Two normal-sized panels, stacked, on the left, and a large panel, the width of three panels of a four-panel comic, and equally tall.}} / {{Panel one is the upper left.}} / [[Harold, talking to us, standing in front of a blue-gray background. / The BG fades to gray, radially, around the sides.]] / Harold: The consolidation of information on the internet allows us to learn about the values and attitudes of people, in ways never before possible.]]
{{Panel two is the lower left.}} / [[Harold, same BG.]] / Harold: Here is a plot of the ratio of hits for 'Googling' "I love ________", / divided by the number of hits for "I hate ________", using various terms.
{{Panel three is the large one. But you had that figured out, already! Right?}} / [[The data are shown in a scatter-plot diagram: A two-dimensional graph, showing where an X value intersects with the Y value, for a given datum. The (vertical) Y-axis is labeled: / Google hits for "I love ________" divided by / Google hits for "I hate _______", using a logarithmic scale, four decades below unity, plus three decades above unity. / The (horizontal) X-axis is unlabeled. This leads one to believe the Y axis shows the ratio cited as its content, but the X-axis merely distributes the data, in a convenient manner.]] / Feynman (Richard, on presumes) is highest, at eight hundred. / Nose hair is lowest, at 0.00025 (two hundred fifty parts per million), equals four thousand to one! / Other entries include: Sex, bacon, coffee, porn, boobs, George W, Star Wars, Digg, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Sarah Palin, Betty White, pirates, ninjas, Star Trek, astronomy, astrology, homeopathy, math, art, mustaches, chest hair, money, and Michael Jackson.
http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=433
Who Benefits from US Prosperity?
[[ Today's comic is a chart. ]]
[[ Heading: Who Benefits from the United States' Prosperity? ]]
[[ Left (vertical) heading: Percentage Change Since 1967 ]] / [[ Left scale runs from negative 40% to positive 100% in 20% increments. ]] / [[ At 0%, a horizontal line extends rightward showing the year, starting at 1965. The line is marked in 5-year increments with every 10th year labeled starting with 1970 and ending with 2010. An arrow points towards the future. ]]
[[ All lines plotted on the graph start at 0% in 1967 and end at 2010. Reading the lines from bottom-most to top-most, we have: (percentages/years are approximate) ]]
[[ Purple line, showing "Minimum Wage". ]] / [[ "Minimum Wage" immediately goes negative, down to -20% in 1973, rise to -10% in 1974 then staying in the -10 to -15% range until about 1980 when a steady slide begins, reaching about -40% in 1988. Rise to -30% in 1991, fall to -35% in 1995, rise to -25% 1997, then a steady fall back to about -40% in 2006. "Minimum wage" rises to about -20% in 2009 then slips back a little going into 2010. ]]
[[ Blue line, showing "Median household income". ]] / [[ "Median household income" starts rising to about +10% in 1969, then stays at about the +10% level, give or take, until maybe +8% in 1983. A steady rise starts in 1983, reaching a peak of +20% in 1989, then falls back to +15% in 1991. It holds at that level until 1993-4 then starts to rise, reaching +25-30% in 2000. "Median household income" then falls a little but holds about steady until 2007, then start to slide, reaching +20% in 2010. ]]
/ [[ Red line, showing "Income of the top 5% of households". ]] / [[ "Income of the top 5%" initially starts to fall but quickly returns to +4% by 1969. It holds steady at +4% until 1971 then it quickly rises to match the "Median household income", which it follows closely until 1981. A rise begins in 1981, reaching over +40% in 1989, but then falls to +30-35% in 1991. Slight growth from '91 to '92, then a steep rise to +60% in 1993, and a continued rise to +100% in 2000. "Income of the top 5%" fell in the early 2000s, to +85%, but recovered to +100% in 2007. Since then it has fallen to only 80% in 2010. ]]
[[ Green line, showing "US GDP per capita". ]] / [[ "US GDP per capita" has seen fairly steady growth, reaching a peak of +100% in 2007. There are plateaus or slight declines from 1969-70, 1973-75, 1977-83, 1989-91, 2000-02. Since the high in 2007, "US GDP per capita" fell back to +90% in 2009 but was growing again as it reached 2010. ]]
[[ "US GDP per capita" briefly lagged the "Median household income" from 1967 to mid 1971, but since then the gap between them has been growing steadily. ]]
[[ "US GDP per capita" was exceeded by the "Income of the top 5%" from 1993 to 2002, a difference of about 10-15% at its greatest in 2000-2001. ]]
[[ Bottom Caption: All figures adjusted for inflation. Incomes taken from the US Census Bureau at http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/. Minimum wage taken from the US Department of Labor http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/chart.htm. US GDP per capita taken from The World Bank http://data.worldbank.org/indicator. ]]
{{alt: As the US GDP per capita continues to rise, even when adjusted for inflation, which segments of society are benefiting? }}
{{title: Unfortunately, the US Census Bureau only records the income of households and not individuals, so somewhere it should be taken into account that there are more two income households these days than there was in the past. }}
http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=590
Number of Google searches from 2004-present for "god" and "free gay porn" in each U.S. state*
*Number of searches normalized by state's total search volume, and then normalized to 1 for the state with the most searches for that term. Data from Google Insights.
[[Searches for "god" on x-axis, searches for "free gay porn" on y-axis]]
Red: States that voted Republican in 3 or 4 of the last 4 presidential elections / Purple: States that voted twice for each party / Blue: States that voted Democratic in 3 or 4 of the elections
{{Alt text: Utah comes out looking pretty good here in comparison to the other red states, but they're actually number one by a HUGE margin when it comes to searching for a certain term that begins with a "p", ends with "ography", and isn't "photography".}}
http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=550
Harold: Edwin Hubble was one of the all-time great astronomers.
Harold: One of his most famous discoveries was that all distant galaxies are receding from the Milky Way, providing some of the first evidence for the Big Bang.
Aaron: A quick Google search indicates that he also had quite an affinity for being photographed with a pipe.
[[ Center strip is a collage of 9 photos showing Edwin Hubble in a variety of poses-- Reading a magazine, looking into a telescope eyepiece, watching Albert Einstein looking into an eyepiece, holding a cat, lighting his pipe, at his desk, and out of doors. In all but one he holds his pipe clenched firmly in his mouth. In the one exception he appears to be speaking, the pipe is held prominently in his hand. ]]
Harold: It has even been said that when Hubble stopped smoking due to Doctor's orders, he still always carried a pipe in case a photograph would be taken. / [[ Behind Harold, another view of an older Hubble, still with pipe in mouth. ]]
Aaron: So when the US Postal Service decided to make a commemorative stamp of Hubble, of course they respected the image that this great astronomer wanted to portray...
[[ Aaron and Harold look at an enlargement of the new stamp. There's Hubble, in front of a starry sky with a telescope dome in the background. ]] / [[ But no pipe. ]] / Harold: D'oh! / Aaron: Hubble must be red-shifting in his grave.
{{ Alt-Text: Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer who profoundly changed understanding of the universe by confirming the existence of galaxies other than our own, the Milky Way. }} / {{ Title: The first semester of graduate studies in astronomy: how to smoke a pipe. }}
{{keywords: physics, astronomy, cosmology, astrophysics, big bang}}
http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=531
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