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Douglas_Knight comments on Open thread, 7-14 July 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Larks 12 July 2014 02:03:18AM 1 point [-]

Quick calibration test for those who like to have opinions on the US: of the standard US racial groupings (white, black, hispanic, asian) and the overall population, which do you expect to have the highest gini ratio for income? Why?

Here is the answer, according to the US Fed

Please use rot13 for spoilers.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 12 July 2014 08:53:20PM *  2 points [-]

I found that graph unreadable, so I made a new one using ggplot.

The problem was that the colors were not distinguishable and that the legend was hard to read. This was compounded by the use of two colors for the same race, but even when ggplot chose 7 colors, they were better than the fed's 7 colors. Actually, the 4 colors before the break were distinguishable, and it was possible to identify them using the hover legend (vs the main legend), but I didn't figure that out until I was done.

Comment author: Larks 12 July 2014 11:54:20PM 0 points [-]

That's a much better graph, thanks!