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i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Counties with life expectancy above 80. Higher life expectancy isn't just about income and wealth — for example, Hispanics are on average poorer than whites but live longer, which is why you see so many counties with large Hispanic populations coded green on the map below.

000

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In relative terms, China's rapid rise in global GDP share came at the expense of the Japanese and Europeans, but not the Americans.

030

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Poor people work fewer hours.

141

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Majority-Hispanic counties in US.

020

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The Republican Party under MAGA has become poorer and less educated.

050

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Sweden has higher concentration of billionaires than US.

021

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Percent born in current state of residence.

020

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Willingness to fight for your country.

140

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

1/ Population genetics just dropped an atom bomb in the pages of Nature. We were told that evolution could not have meaningfully operated on the human brain in the "short period" of time since humans left Africa for Europe and Asia around 50,000 years ago. In fact, www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.com

Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia - Nature

Analysis of 15,836 ancient West Eurasian genomes reveals hundreds of instances of directional selection, showing that sustained changes in allele frequency were widespread, rather than being...

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i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Huge gender gap on toy choices.

030

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

California population stagnation and state employee growth.

040

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Suicide mortality rate by county.

120

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Pew polled people in 25 nations, asking them to select attributes that make them proud of their country. Only 6% of Americans mentioned "diversity and multiculturalism." Percentage of French who selected it: 12% Germans: 10% Swedes: 7% South Africans: 7% Indians: 5%

030

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Diversity is a strength for young Republicans who enjoy holocaust denial.

041

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Counties by whether they grew or shrank.

010

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Self-reported mental health by generation.

010

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

In 2024, the US murder rate was among the lowest it's been since the late 1960s, the property crime rate was the second lowest it's been since 1960, and all types of serious crime but rape were much lower than they were in the 80s. But crime fear porn dominates rightwing social media.

020

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The mean IQ of whites identifying as "extreme liberals" (107) is considerably higher than the mean for "extreme conservatives" (98) in the US.

040

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Findings from new data analysis of homicides of transgender people: — Blacks murder transgender people at 19 TIMES the rate that whites do — Transgender homicide rates are below the general population rate — Only 3% of cases are hate crimes dont-shoot-the-data.github.io/TCLEAR/

021

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Charitable giving by county.

150

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Shift in Democratic Party policies.

032

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

US voter net support for selected progressive policies.

010

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

About 1/4 of all the electrical power consumed in the state of Virginia is consumed by data centers.

131

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Distribution of skin color of west Eurasians of last 16,000 years.

030

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Overwhelming positive net contribution of Indian immigrants in the US.

020

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

White liberals have a more favorable view of black Christians than white Christians.

120

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Changes in religious demography of Israel-Palestine region over the centuries.

010

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Birthplace of US immigrants by percentage of population, 1850-2017.

230

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Trend in opinion of socialism, by party affiliation.

010

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Adjusted for population, Jews have earned nearly 6,000 times more Nobel Prizes in the sciences and economics than Muslims.

050

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Concentration of economic activity in US.

221

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Actual size of each country.

020

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Domestic violence rates by gender and sexuality.

152

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

White population percentage by state and province.

000

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Parental income distribution of ACT scores.

030

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Terrorist attacks and plots by political orientation.

000

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Bias against males in tenure tracking.

010

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Socialism preference by college major.

161

i/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The US counties with the lowest average IQs tend to be located in the Deep South, Southwest, and where Indian reservations are located. The highest-IQ counties tend to be in New England, Midwest/Plains, and transplant-heavy scenic Mountain West.