Biology and politics, unfortunately linked

[Dos Perros]

For reasons that don't matter I was curious to see the correlation between the percentage of Coloradoans that voted for Biden and compare it to the percentage of Coloradoans that voted for Proposition 114 (the wolf bill). Each dot represents an individual county in Colorado. As you can see there appears to be a very tight correlation (an r-squared value above 0.7 is regarded 'highly correlated'). I think we all knew this already. Anyway, this post is worth what you paid for it I guess.

 

[Geewhiz]

So what you're showing is the vast majority of biden voters also voted for wolf introduction? That makes sense.

 

[Dos Perros]

So what you're showing is the vast majority of biden voters also voted for wolf introduction? That makes sense.

The data is at the county level, not individual voter level, but at the extreme ends it makes sense to infer that if you voted for Biden you also voted yes on 114 (and the inverse is also true).

 

[Drenalin]

67% percent of statistics are made up. But I believe you.

 

[Aulus]

No surprise at all, but I love the visual.

 

[rclouse79]

Do you happen to have graphs of each axis on your graph vs IQ? I have a feeling there would be a strong correlation there as well.

 

[MightyWhitey]

This reminds me of the Norm McDonald doghouse/logic joke.

 

[5MilesBack]

There's also a direct correlation between simple logic and politics, and those that understand it on one side and those that don't on the other. And it is extremely easy to identify those differences in every single issue we encounter.

 

[LongWayAround]

Proof that liberalism is a disease.

In other news, I hear they are going to have a contest for kids to name the wolves. Good thing they're going for full Disneyland effect.

 

[CJ19]

Welcome to the future of western hunting.

 

[Hackleback]

Data/graph source? Is this a reliable source?

How does one vote XX% on something? Voting is binary, No=0 Yes=1

There is likely a strong correlation between the two, but the way its presented is suspect to me.

 

[RS_Non-Res]

R2=85% is super strong for social sciences.
Notice also that the population is more likely to vote for JB than for wolves (slope is <1)