Message from @Platinum Spark

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2019-10-03 21:54:44 UTC  

Democrats are more concentrated, so the dots are fewer, but larger

2019-10-03 21:54:57 UTC  

Republicans are more distributed, so the dots are smaller, but many

2019-10-03 21:55:47 UTC  

If you add up all the area or all the dots, the blue would be a little larger than the red- what was the final margin?

2019-10-03 21:56:09 UTC  

2.1%

2019-10-03 21:56:20 UTC  

Was Clinton’s margin of popular victory

2019-10-03 21:56:42 UTC  

simple as

2019-10-03 21:57:15 UTC  

... yes honey, simple as

2019-10-03 21:57:26 UTC  

Do you understand it now?

2019-10-03 21:57:36 UTC  

people use deceptive charts all the time, i'm not surprised you don't see the bias

2019-10-03 21:58:05 UTC  

You haven’t made a claim of what the bias is

2019-10-03 21:58:14 UTC  

that was the first thing I did

2019-10-03 21:58:29 UTC  

No you didn’t

2019-10-03 21:58:37 UTC  

I forgot that you can't read

2019-10-03 21:58:37 UTC  

sorry

2019-10-03 21:58:44 UTC  

You just said something that was a misinterpretation of what the chart shows

2019-10-03 21:58:57 UTC  

What’s your confusion about the chart?

2019-10-03 21:59:03 UTC  

there is no confusion

2019-10-03 21:59:14 UTC  

Ok, what’s your specific claim

2019-10-03 21:59:23 UTC  

it's a map to make the republicans look like they represented much less of the vote than they did

2019-10-03 21:59:26 UTC  

Give me an example of a city that you think is improperly represented

2019-10-03 22:00:10 UTC  

Or county

2019-10-03 22:00:41 UTC  

look at like over 60% of the republican counties, they are obviously not the same population but they are represented by the same exact sized squares

2019-10-03 22:01:12 UTC  

Those are very small populations

2019-10-03 22:01:20 UTC  

They are relatively the same size

2019-10-03 22:01:28 UTC  

no they aren't

2019-10-03 22:01:35 UTC  

They are to a scale that lets us see that New York is where New York is

2019-10-03 22:01:54 UTC  

Otherwise the New York circle would cover up the entire eastern seaboard

2019-10-03 22:02:34 UTC  

Ok, please name any 2 counties you think have significantly different populations

2019-10-03 22:02:48 UTC  

That you feel are misrepresented here

2019-10-03 22:03:13 UTC  

like nashville is pretty large on the chart

2019-10-03 22:03:21 UTC  

I’m willing to be proven wrong, but you have to make a concrete claim here

2019-10-03 22:03:28 UTC  

but my city is like 1/3 the size and it's like much tinier

2019-10-03 22:03:36 UTC  

What’s your city?

2019-10-03 22:03:40 UTC  

not going to say

2019-10-03 22:03:53 UTC  

Then I can’t evaluate that claim

2019-10-03 22:03:59 UTC  

Give me the name of a city

2019-10-03 22:04:08 UTC  

basically my city is like 1/12th the size on the chart

2019-10-03 22:04:12 UTC  

That you feel is roughly the same size as your city

2019-10-03 22:04:13 UTC  

or 1/10th

2019-10-03 22:04:30 UTC  

I don’t believe you. Either say the name of your city, or pick another example

2019-10-03 22:04:40 UTC  

no