• unmagical@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    What’s the Y axis for the middle graph? Also only having 3 data points in such a brief window doesn’t really say much. Finally the grouping metric of “won majority of presidential elections from 2000 to 2020” isn’t clear and isn’t necessarily reflexive of policy. A more appropriate metric might be the party of the governor or the majority parties of their chambers.

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      3 months ago

      I think the y-axis shows number of kids.

      I agree with what you’re saying though—3 points does not make a compelling statement. I also agree that a better metric probably exists than what was posted. I’d add on and would like to know what the error bands represent—standard error, confidence intervals, or something else?