It’s all arbitrary here to some degree—it’s just messing around with the numbers. (Incidentally I wasn’t trying to imply that “political diversity” was a virtue.)
If you pick the axes to mean something, then they’ll be defined “to taste,” of course. If you don’t bother about giving them English-word labels, just let them be the first two components in PCA or something.
Honestly, I’m just messing around here. For crying out loud, it’s not meant to be Truth.
It’s all arbitrary here to some degree—it’s just messing around with the numbers. (Incidentally I wasn’t trying to imply that “political diversity” was a virtue.)
If you pick the axes to mean something, then they’ll be defined “to taste,” of course. If you don’t bother about giving them English-word labels, just let them be the first two components in PCA or something.
Honestly, I’m just messing around here. For crying out loud, it’s not meant to be Truth.