{"id":3463,"date":"2015-07-17T12:28:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T17:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2015-07-17T12:28:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T17:28:52","slug":"graph-of-the-week-partisan-political-polarization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/07\/17\/graph-of-the-week-partisan-political-polarization\/","title":{"rendered":"Graph of the Week &#8211; Partisan Political Polarization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/08\/19\/map-of-the-week-u-s-political-polarization\/\">Awhile back<\/a>, I commented on two different ways to visualize the ongoing process of political polarization in the U.S. The first was an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2014\/08\/18\/americas-half-century-of-polarization-in-one-gif\/\">animated map<\/a> from Washington Post, the second was an attraction-and-repulsion nodal model produced by Renzo Lucioni and republished by at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/united-states\/21591190-united-states-amoeba\">The Economist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I became aware of another way to visualize the problem of political polarization, produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2014\/06\/12\/7-things-to-know-about-polarization-in-america\/\">Pew Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/07\/Untitled1.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2014\/06\/12\/7-things-to-know-about-polarization-in-america\/\">check it out<\/a> for yourself. See if you can figure out when the two partisan medians started accelerating apart. For bonus points, come up with a decent hypothesis as to why this is happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awhile back, I commented on two different ways to visualize the ongoing process of political polarization in the U.S. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-damned-lies-and-statistics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}