Comments on: New Year Requestathon Answers.

By: Sgt Pepper\'s Bleeding Hearts Club Band

Sgt Pepper\'s Bleeding Hearts Club Band — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:38:12 +0000

Possum, can you factor the age distribution of the different electorates into your analysis? I wonder how much the relationship between Greens vote and religiosity reflects an age cohort effect. Religion and education are certainly strongly age cohort-related. For example, the rough national figures show that:

* 24% of 25-34 year olds stated ‘no religion’ vs 15% of those aged 35+
* 20% of 25-34 year olds had completed Year 10 or less vs 45% of those aged 35+

The 2 electorates with a Green vote above 20% also had the highest proportion of resident adults aged less than 35, but I don’t know how far this plays out. What would your correlations look like if you exclude age as a variable?

By: David Richards

David Richards — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:22:21 +0000

OH NO!

Look What they’re doing to your cousins at FDacebook

http://www.new.facebook.com/tos.php?api_key=09c481eb4a47c45cc6dc190c4088a299&next=http%3A%2F%2F72.32.123.74%2Fv1%2F%3F_fb_fromhash%3D2a7863bae07b9776df3980d08e266406%26fb_sig_in_iframe%3D1%26fb_sig_locale%3Den_GB%26fb_sig_in_new_facebook%3D1%26fb_sig_time%3D1230873591.3968%26fb_sig_added%3D0%26fb_sig_canvas_user%3D663648790%26fb_sig_api_key%3D09c481eb4a47c45cc6dc190c4088a299%26fb_sig%3D40e5089345267e6976c0e1eeef58d639&v=1.0&canvas

By: calyptorhynchus

calyptorhynchus — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:09:33 +0000

On the Lone Person Household/No Religion correlation, you could hazard that it’s only people with partners and/or children who feel compelled (for some reason) to perpetuate religion!

By: Yaz

Yaz — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:55:59 +0000

Thanks, Poss, I appreciate all that. Not being a stats type, I need some clarification about the graphs. Is the steepness of the line of best fit on the graph any measure of correlation, or is it simply an artifact of the choice of scale on the x and y lines? I am presuming the latter. If so, how do I gauge the level of correlation?
As to the substance of the graphs… Perhaps folks who choose to live by themselves are consciously choosing a life other than the partner/2.1 kids/dog/suburbia life, that might otherwise correlate with either of the major parties. Or perhaps Green voters are naturally more cranky and find themselves living alone because they have no choice!

By: CountArach

CountArach — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:24:13 +0000

Thanks for the answer Poss! Happy new year to you too.