Have you gotten to season 3? Personally, I found it terrible, which really brought down an otherwise adequate average up until then... Also the series finalé is an atrocity.

There was a writers strike then which was why a clip show occurred.

If you look at the data this article does not include any drought data since 1/17/23. It stayed at 99.36% until February.

Someone got triggered by a graph — yikes.

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Apples to oranges. The WaPo dataset is behind a paywall so I cannot verify, but you used the term ‘police killings,’ whereas WaPo uses the term ‘police shootings.’ From previous interaction with the dataset I believe the WaPo source excludes non-firearm ‘police killings.’

You said yourself, suicide correlates with firearm ownership; I propose ‘police shootings’ likely correlates with the presence of firearms in police encounters which likely correlates to availability of firearms.

Furthermore, as somebody else mentioned, the time domain differs between the sets. You have different time periods, different classification criteria, potentially overlapping datapoints treated as distinct events. I do not believe any valid conclusions or observations could really be made from this presentation.

Kind of true, but it is industry and agriculture that use most of the water. Ordinary people and residences use only a small fraction of that.

The top graphs really need an x axis. My best guess is that it's each state's index, or something like that? Not sure how that's useful, but that's what it looks like.

I think it depends on how much you think Sub-Rosa is aware it's cheesy camp and how much you like that sort of thing.

Whereas even in '87 a stranger impregnating you in your sleep is very rape-y even with the sci-fi premise; then raising the rapist, Troi essentially abandoned to her new motherhood, Riker irritated he isn't the father/rapist ... the "It's a badly adapted phase II script" really shows.

Everyone say it with me.

“Correlation does NOT imply causation.”

Why is there a correlation? No idea. No evidence they are connected in any way unless a focused experiment is conducted.

Have you tried mapping all the other causes of death?

Also, you're comparing two disparate stretches of time leading up to the same endpoint. That seems like bad practice.

I'm also not seeing where the wapo link you provided gives data on the party affiliation of the people who were shot. Is that data just a reflection of the location, then?

I'm not a data scientist, but this feels very pegboards-and-strings-across-the-room kind of scenario.

Discovery statistically the worst trek series? sounds right

Also what episode of picard got a 9.4!?

Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" –

Thou shalt remain, ... a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,
– that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

... as for "Nor easily understood"
I agree, I do not understand how police killings and suicides are correlated:

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

This data... is not beautiful. Nor easily understood.

The article covers the progression of droughts from 2000 to 2022. Only a small portion of what is said in the article can be discounted due to the recent storms. And that's frankly only if drought conditions don't immediately return within a few months.

Purpose

Police killings and suicides, it seems, are different spheres of activity and would/should have NO connection/correlation (excepting suicide-by-cop).Butthe data says there IS correlation.

That is, why would a state with a high suicide rate also have a high police killing rate?
conversely, why would a state with a low suicide rate also have a low police killing rate?

How? Why?

You're correct! Somehow Sub Rosa still has a 4.8 rating which I find extremely generous.

Also, lol. I can't believe season 2 started with Troi getting surprise pregnant from an alien and ended with a clip show.

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Consider adding all Murders with this.

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top, left: shows the fifty states separated by their 2020 election vote (red/Rep and blue/Dem); the source data is worked up to determine the police killings per 100,000 pop and tabulated; the ranked table is visually presented ... identifying the states is not important: the importance is in the non-random, top/bottom pattern of the data

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the top, right: is a visualization of source suicide per 100,000 pop data

3
– the means and standard deviations of the Rep and Dem data are represented by the dashed lines and the shaded boxes
– the t-test compares means of Sample populations: low t-test values indicate that the means are NOT due to random data fluctuations

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the bottom plot
– plots the (suicide, police killings) coordinates for each state
– a best fit line is determined for the Rep and Dem coordinates
– the Pearson correlation calculates how 'strong' the data fits the best-fit line (0.81 and 0.75 are strong correlations)
– the "P-value" is the probability that the Pearson "r-value" represents random fluctuation of the data
– smaller P-values indicate less random character of Sample data

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the "impact value" use the r-value and the P-value to quantify the data fit
– just looking at the plot coordinates, the best fit lines, and the Pearson values ... it is (for me) hard to see that the Dem correlation is so much stronger than the Rep correlation; but the impact value informs me so.

Thanks for the full names.

Should include mean and median ratings for each series as well.

The fact that TNG has the best AND worst eppisode should scream for some statistical average information

I can't math too good, but I can at least count to two, which is at least how many people don't understand this graph...

Maybe this is naïve, but a soft takeaway for me is that this kind of critical analysis (IMDB, not OP) is inarguably impacted by the timeliness of the rating, and so I suspect that the scores would like different if TOS, TNG et al had been reviewed by a contemporary IMDB.

Snow pack is way higher than normal, about double, and reservoirs are pretty much full. Yeah it's over, but we'll start another one soon enough.