Notices by Conrad Hackett :verified: (conradhackett@sciences.social), page 3

70% of 25-29 year-olds in Italy live with their parents. Across Southern Europe, a large share of young adults do so.

https://landgeist.com/2022/06/04/young-adults-living-with-their-parents/

The only things on this map are railroads!
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/lj4wqt/the_railroads_of_the_world_oc/

A ? of key findings from #PewResearch report on son preference & religion in India
https://pewresearch.org/religion/2022/08/23/indias-sex-ratio-at-birth-begins-to-normalize/

India's sex ratio at birth has been moving toward balance in recent years

The natural sex ratio at birth is about 105 males per 100 females.

2001: 130 boys born to Sikh mothers for every 100 girls. Male bias among Sikhs has since reduced to 110:100.

Male biased ratios declined among Hindus & Muslims.

Natural sex ratio at birth among Christians.

The world now has 8 million Mastodon accounts and 8 billion people. So, as a Mastodon user, you’re one in a thousand.

How big countries seem in the Mercator projection vs. their true size in relation to all others
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/9nkhkz/animating_the_mercator_projection_to_the_true/

How long would it take a hacker to brute force your password?
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/t52qxa/oc_i_updated_our_famous_password_table_for_2022/

#ThrowbackThursday: Here's a chart showing the most common languages people were tweeting in back in 2014:
1 English
2 Japanese
3 Spanish
4 Portuguese
5 Indonesian
6 Arabic
7 French
8 Turkish
9 Russian

I'd love to see similar analytics for Mastodon (or, to be pragmatic, users on the largest servers). In addition to languages, it would be interesting to know about distributions of post counts, people followed and followers. Is anyone doing such work?

Ranking of English proficiency
1 Netherlands
2 Singapore
3 Austria
4 Norway
5 Denmark
6 Belgium
7 Sweden
8 Finland
9 Portugal
10 Germany
28 Nigeria
29 Switzerland
34 France
36 S Korea
40 Russia
52 India
58 Brazil
62 China
64 Turkey
69 Iran
74 Israel
80 Japan
85 Egypt
88 Mexico
102 S Arabia
111 Laos
https://www.ef.com/wwen/epi/
Based on data from more than 2 million opt-in test takers. May not be representative samples from each country.

“Elon Musk sent up the Bat Signal to every kind of racist, misogynist and homophobe that Twitter was open for business,” said Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. “They have reacted accordingly.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-speech.html

The Internet in 1969
https://medium.com/@starhappy01/the-history-of-the-internet-7ac0a0d35720

Highest carbon emissions per capita
1 Middle East oil producing countries - Bahrain/Oman/Kuwait/Qatar/UAE
2 Canada
3 Saudi Arabia
4 US
5 Australia/NZ
6 Russia
7 South Korea
8 Kazakhstan/Turkmenistan
9 Taiwan
10 Japan

Only 9.5% of France’s electricity production comes from fossil fuels, much lower than many other developed countries like the U.S. at 60% and Japan at 69%.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-global-per-capita-co2-emissions/

Here's part 4 of a compilation of people recommended to me:

Great Journalism: @JFallows @jayrosen_nyu @markjacob @jeffjarvis
Authors: @GreatDismal @neilhimself @cstross
ActivityPub creators are both full of great insight on how the Fediverse works and interesting personalities in their own right: @cwebber @rhiaro @evan @erincandescent @tsyesika
Exploring data: @conradhackett (aw, thanks!)

Here's part 3 of a compilation of people recommended to me:

@Standplaats_KRK alternative humor
@tomtomorrow cartoonist
@ziya for her 'Earthlings' series.
@leo Excellent tech material
@pluralistic "I post long threads"
@colarusso_algo bot that reblogs stuff stuff @Colarusso would want to see
Helping newcomers: @stux @WalterShaub @mastodonmigration @feditips
Legal Insights: @marcelias @Dahlialith @jentaub @emptywheel @rickhasen @ifilljustice @icymi_law

? Thanks for the recommendations and descriptions of accounts to follow. Since the earlier thread is messy, here's part 1 of a compilation of people recommended to me:

@cathywilcox A gifted, acerbic eye on the world
@craignewmark founder, craigslist
@AnEnglishHuman "You've got a Freud in me"
@drhafezster Awesome astronomy pics and a wealth of science. Just phenomenal.
@coreyspowell for cool science stuff
@AbandonedAmerica Evocative pictures and equally evocative image descriptions

Here's part 2 of a compilation of people recommended to me:

@fivebooks "library of knowledge"
@mariapopova "Reader. Writer. Creator of The Marginalian"
@owasow for lots of interesting reads that provoke thinking
@Prof_Mirya for witty and smart advice with just enough irreverence
@nanjala had one of the best public intellectual Twitter feeds
@mollyquell She reports on the happenings in the Hague... in a way that actually makes you want to read about what is happening in the Hague.

US: Where do you fit in the political typology? Take the #PewResesarch quiz and see how you compare to a representative sample of more than 10,000 Americans.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/quiz/political-typology/
Note: From the above page, you can create a group version of the quiz for a classroom or other group.
@sociology @politicalscience @anthropology

US: Pew Research Center analysis finds that Democrats and Republicans in Congress are now farther apart ideologically than at any time in the past 50 years. Republicans have moved further to the right than Democrats have to the left.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/10/the-polarization-in-todays-congress-has-roots-that-go-back-decades/ #PewResearch

US: On average, Congress has become more conservative over the past five decades, according to #PewResearch analysis.

50 years ago in the House, 144 Republicans were less conservative than the most conservative Democrat, and 52 Dems were less liberal than the most liberal Repub. Since 2002, there’s been no overlap at all between the least liberal Democrats and the least conservative Republicans.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/10/the-polarization-in-todays-congress-has-roots-that-go-back-decades/ @politicalscience

The Pacific Ocean
... is larger than all land in the world combined (as illustrated in this map)
... has about twice as much water as the Atlantic
... contains its own antipode - the Gulf of Tonkin and a spot off the coast of Chile, both in Pacific waters, are diametrically opposite on the Earth's surface