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Politicians think a lot about their own interests and care little about the public (lemm.ee)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://web.archive.org/web/20240518061606/https://kaks.fi/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/tutkimusosio-18052024.pdf

Finland dataset

Edit: final update for the viz, comments started with this

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Representative democracy’s flaw is that representatives have little accountability. A bad actor has 2-6 years to do whatever they want. Enrich themselves, their friends, benefit a company that will give them an extremely cushy consultancy role when they leave the government, enact deeply unpopular laws, etc.

When you consider other things like the fact that representatives (at least in the us) are usually from a political class that has nothing in common with the working man, the fact they are almost never minoritized demographics, and they never see their constituents face to face until its time to hit the campaign trail, it’s no surprise they don’t value your interests until its time to demand your vote come November.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Loving how these communities invariably contain the most boring visualizations possible or the most boring data you could collect

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

"Data is lackluster" just isn't as catchy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

did they take measures between 2020 and 2024? if not, from a dataviz standpoint, i don't think years 2021, 22, 23 should be included in the x-labels; it makes it look like a clean, linear increase through the years.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, 2020 and 2024. I like your idea, I'm not sure if I can implement it with Google Sheets

Edit: They can be stacked maybe

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Give me that amount of money and power, combined with almost no repercussion for being a selfish prick to keep this life style, and I too may not be the upstanding citizen I like to think of myself.

I honestly think we would be a lot better off if decision where made by random citizens - kind of like jury duty, instead of professional politicians.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I don't trust the random citizen, they elected Hitler after all

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This graph confused me for some time

Also, *surprised Pikachu.jpg*

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Probably because of the statement form? I couldn't decide if it should be converted to a question... Or something with the visual?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The visual, neutral looks like no graph, and coloured parts have one of their sides highlighted. It looks like there are two independent graphs stacked on top of each other

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

100% stacked charts are stacked for a reason, but would reordering the answers and switching to columns help?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I like this format the best of the three charts you posted here. Something about stacking them in order from smallest to biggest makes more sense

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I like how it got upgraded with new ideas

Trend lines and data labels?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Big yes to those data labels! The trend lines don’t tell much of a story when there’s only two points along the x-axis. Actually the red trend line is confusing since it trends up I’d expect “more” of a disagree but the data labels show there were 5% less disagree.