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LouSanous t1_jebjx0s wrote

I love how the color arbitrarily changes just after Russia and China so they can appear to be in a worse category.

There are 15 counties in Russia's color group and they are 24th overall. There's 68 countries in China's group. Unless these colors groups are at specific and arbitrary intervals and China and Russia just happen to barely be on the one side of the threshold, then it means that this is an intentional decision meant to mislead.

Edit, yeah. Egypt is 117 and China is 119. Totally just made the decision to put China in a worse color for no reason. Why not make the cutoff a nice round number like 125 or 120, but no. 118. Brilliant.

Edit 2. If you divide 629 by 6, you get 104.8. multiples of that number should have been the cutoffs for these colors.

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cbarrettg OP t1_jebmmi2 wrote

The colors are not arbitrary, each map has 6 color groups that contain an equal range of values. For the global map, the rates are 0-629 so the color group changes whenever the rate goes up by ~104 inmates per 100,000. That is just where the two countries happen to fall in the dataset.

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cbarrettg OP t1_jebo7br wrote

The data has changed slightly since I made this poster last year, apologies for any confusion, I was not trying to be misleading.

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