Political views, opinions, and worldviews become increasingly irreconcilable (idea-based polarization), while at the same time society appears to be getting fractured in antagonistic, opposing camps (identity-based polarization).

I'm not sure how it is actually measured. It is from the v-dem dataset. Is that questionaire data?

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the link

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

God if only there were a way to plot x by y on two independent axis...

[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

axes

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well I don't see how you would be able to tell which dot belongs to which country. I would like a scatter plot, but it appears the authors want to tell a different story

[–] match@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

could we install a turbine and use this to generate power

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

If populist propaganda could generate power we'd be fossil fuel free by next week

[–] HottieAutie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I see USA, Hungary, and Poland up there pretty high. I wonder if Russia has anything to do with that.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Definitely

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 1 points 1 month ago

I'm curious the method here. The USA I would guess at being 90%+ firmly one or the other with a handful of squishy between, but how do they measure the level of it... 🤔

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How does one read this chart?

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Just go to the link, which is a long string of numbers displayed as text in an image so as to be as cumbersome as possible.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

by downloading the data and turning it into a scatter plot