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SHG098 t1_j8w4f0q wrote

Reply to [OC] Plastic waste emitted to the ocean per country by sometiara1

What a great graph for making big rich countries feel good. The "per capita" calculation gives a wildly misleading idea of who should be acting to stop plastic pollution. A lot of the countries with the longest petals are just very small.

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Altruistic-Tomato-66 t1_j8w3t6y wrote

Reply to comment by AlwaysUpvotesScience in [OC] Plastic waste emitted to the ocean per country by sometiara1

> China and the US.

Not exactly. China, then Germany, then the US. But China produces more than the US, Germany, Italy, France, Poland, Netherlands, and Japan combined. Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of plastic items during 2021.

China: US$35.5 billion (34.3% of exported plastic items)

Germany: $11.4 billion (11%)

United States: $7.8 billion (7.5%)

Italy: $3.7 billion (3.5%)

France: $3.4 billion (3.3%)

Poland: $3.1 billion (3%)

Netherlands: $2.77 billion (2.7%)

Japan: $2.4 billion (2.3%)

Mexico: $2.3 billion (2.2%)

Czech Republic: $2.18 billion (2.1%)

Taiwan: $2.13 billion (2.1%)

Hong Kong: $1.9 billion (1.8%)

South Korea: $1.73 billion (1.7%)

Belgium: $1.69 billion (1.6%)

Vietnam: $1.63 billion (1.6%)

https://www.worldstopexports.com/plastic-item-exports-country/

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Yalay t1_j8vxiqt wrote

Reply to comment by liortulip in [OC] Prediction markets forecast the supreme court will end affirmative action by liortulip

The oral argument already happened. It's usually pretty clear how most of the justices are going to vote based on the questions they ask, not to mention their past decisions/writings on the topic.

And for this particular issue, the last time affirmative action was in front of the court it was 4-3 to uphold it. All three dissenting votes are still on the court, while three of the four from the majority have left. Add in Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett who weren't on the court at the time, and it's pretty likely at least two of them will vote to strike down AA.

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70-1is69 t1_j8vx7uk wrote

Reply to comment by Hashashin_ in [OC] Paramilitary Forces Manpower by Country according to global firepower index by two_plus_two_is_zero

>I wonder, why Karachi a city with 25 million people, very high population density, poverty and crime rate requires less paramilitary than Kashmir

Abey lodu, apne terrorist bhejna band kro, hata denge saare thulle, Pakistan ka national motto hona chahiye gaand me dum nahi hum kisi se Kam nhi. Must admit, kaafi Vele kisam ke aadmi ho

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Dark_Believer t1_j8vwrtk wrote

Reply to The U.S. states where children consume the most sugary snacks by LuckyLaceyKS

I think that using survey data for this type of statistic is going to be much, MUCH less accurate than other forms of data gathering. Different social pressures, human memory, and biases will skew the results heavily.

One could easily request data from multiple snack\sweets manufacturers, look at sales numbers per capita across a variety of brands, and then come to much better conclusions. This would require contacts and influence with many big companies though.

Sure using Google surveys will be cheap and easy so that even a college student could knock out a report for their health class in a week, but I wouldn't put any stock into this data.

I'm from Utah, and I have no idea how we ranked bottom on the list. Utah probably consumes more sweets than average due to cultural pressure to avoid other vices, such as alcohol and cigarettes. Maybe Utah parents don't feed as much to their kids(unknown), but Utah adults eat a ton of sugar.

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