This is a weird one. Bear with me. From !dataisbeautiful@lemmygrad.ml:

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.

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        4 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.

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          4 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.

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            4 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.