{"id":557,"date":"2009-11-14T11:54:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T15:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/?p=557"},"modified":"2009-11-16T23:55:15","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T03:55:15","slug":"mapping-voter-apathy-by-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/2009\/11\/14\/mapping-voter-apathy-by-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping voter apathy by age"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_558\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-558\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/14\/opinion\/14blow.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/files\/2009\/11\/age_and_apathy.gif\" alt=\"Charles Blow&#39;s graphs to track voter apathy by age group\" title=\"Charles Blow&#39;s graphs to track voter apathy by age group\" width=\"400\" height=\"1050\" class=\"size-full wp-image-558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/files\/2009\/11\/age_and_apathy.gif 400w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/files\/2009\/11\/age_and_apathy-114x300.gif 114w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/files\/2009\/11\/age_and_apathy-390x1024.gif 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Blow's graphs to track voter apathy by age group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>What needs work<\/h3>\n<p>These graphs are meant to illustrate voter apathy by age group.  <\/p>\n<p>Jay Livingston, blogger at <a href=\"http:\/\/montclairsoci.blogspot.com\/\">Montclair socioblog<\/a>, points out that comparisons between age groups would be far easier if all the age groups appeared on one graph.  I agree.<\/p>\n<p>I would also point out that I&#8217;m curious about whether it is strictly age or a cohort effect that is really at the heart of the question about who votes.  In order to answer that by using infographics, I might have looked at voting rates within cohorts over time (so graph the baby boomers voting rates as they age and so forth).<\/p>\n<p>One picky little detail:  when making graphs that have to do with voting, it&#8217;s probably best to assume many people will see red and blue and think Republican and Democrat.  I would have preferred any other colors, just to avoid confusion.<\/p>\n<h3>The bigger problem<\/h3>\n<p>Folks, leave your computer alone for a minute and vote.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Blow, Charles. (2009, 14 November) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/14\/opinion\/14blow.html\">&#8220;The Passion of the Right&#8221;<\/a> op-ed in the <i>New York Times<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What needs work These graphs are meant to illustrate voter apathy by age group. Jay Livingston, blogger at Montclair socioblog, points out that comparisons between age groups would be far easier if all the age groups appeared on one graph. I agree. I would also point out that I&#8217;m curious about whether it is strictly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[986,154],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-graphs","tag-political"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}