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Tuesday, April 23, 2019

on appalling graphs and the deceiving power of words

these 4 fields with their graphs


1. LANGUAGE.




The United States of SentimentCertain words more precisely communicate positive and negative feelings.Interestingly, very bad edges out words like abysmal and dreadful as the most conclusively negative phrase for those survey respondents based in the United States.Effective Words:
 U.K. EditionThe version of the survey conducted in the United Kingdom reveals interesting differences in how words are perceived.

The U.S. results showed less agreement on words that weren’t on the extreme ends of the sentiment spectrum.

In both regions, the word average was nearly dead-center on the graph and had the highest percentage of people agreeing on its score.
DeRose collection of emotion words






2.  Economy.

                                       Our World at one shot


  •  the top four economies combined account for over 50% of the world economy.
  • The latest estimate from the World Bank puts global GDP at roughly $80 trillion in nominal terms for 2017.






Today’s chart from HowMuch.net uses this data to show all major economies in a visualization called a Voronoi diagram -here  the video 1980-2016






3.  Housing.  

 The Places Where It’s Hardest to Afford a Home


According to the 2019 International Housing Affordability Survey by Demographia, six out of the 15 least affordable housing markets are in Australia and New Zealand, five are in the United States. 
  • The least affordable housing market is Hong Kong. 
  • Here, the median house price is almost 21 times as high as the median annual gross household income. 
  • Overall, New Zealand was the least affordable country in the study, which looked at the U.S., Canada, the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, followed by Australia.



4.  State of women in business.

 see 6 graps here


TASK. Pick up ONE and deal with it in a wr composition


 HINT: Read the  2015 article from the link here 

  • Prepare a language bank for your WR task

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