D_Malik comments on Open Thread, Apr. 27 - May 3, 2015

D_Malik 30 Apr 2015 4:36 UTC
4 points
Probably gotten most of the responses it was going to get, so here’s a scatter plot:

People seem to think it’s worse the more they know about it (except those who know nothing seem slightly more pessimistic than those who know only a little).

Made by running this in IPython (after “import pandas as pd” and “from numpy.random import randn” in .pythonstartup):
```
!sed "/^#/d" poll.csv >poll-clean.csv
pd.read_csv("poll-clean.csv", names=["user", "pollid", "response", "date"])
_.pivot_table("response", ["user"], ["pollid"])
_ + 0.1*randn(*_.shape) # jitter
_.plot(kind="scatter", x=906, y=907)
plt.xlabel("Net loss.....Net benefit")
plt.ylabel("Nothing.....Expert")
```