Views of white Americans

May 1, 2014

Statistical Visualization / Amanda Cox, New York Times, racism

In light of the Donald Sterling brouhaha, Amanda Cox for The Upshot put up some charts for why you shouldn’t be surprised that people still say racist things, based on data from the General Social Survey dating back to 1972. Mmhm.

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage. Sometimes.

From the teenage years to college to adulthood through retirement, sleep is all over the place at first but then converges towards consistency.

Some people never get married, and some wait longer than others. Let’s look at these people.

Two decades out from the first statewide ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces, here’s who still smokes.