This is a weird one. Bear with me. From [email protected]:

So I said to myself, “that’s a little bit weird. The US one going up, I can actually believe, but the North Korea one being lower is definitely wrong.”

I think Our World In Data is just being shoddy, as they often do.

https://www.wfp.org/countries/democratic-peoples-republic-korea

https://www.statista.com/statistics/269924/countries-most-affected-by-hunger-in-the-world-according-to-world-hunger-index/

The thing I found funny, and why I’m posting here, comes from observing why it was that they started their graph at 2003 and exactly at 2003.

I feel like you could use this as a slide in a little seminar in “how to curate your data until it matches your conclusion, instead of the other way around.”

And also, I don’t think the hunger rate suddenly dropped from epic to 0 exactly in 2003, I think more likely Our World in Data is just a little bit shoddy about their data.

  • @surph_ninja
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    04 days ago

    I’m not here to create value. I have come here to chew bubble gum, and talk shit. And I’m all out of bubble gum.

    • @mojofrododojo
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      24 days ago

      you can’t chew gum and type at the same time without risk of choking to death. we get it.

      my god, what a pointless and petty existence you must have, whining and moaning to get attention on the internet from people who genuinely despise you.

      • @surph_ninja
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        04 days ago

        LoL. You think I’m here for you?!

        I’m here to piss on propaganda and hasbara. As Ben Franklin would have wanted us to do.