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Generosity Index 2004
Raleigh:
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on November 12, 2004, 12:18:32 pm ---It's sad that the state with the lowest income is the 5th highest state to give to charity.
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Have you actually opened up the excel file that the information is coming from. If you look at purely on giving with no other factors included, Mississippi is 35th in giving, not 5th in total charitable givings.
DrewKaree:
interesting. The I.Q. one is accepted without question, but the giving one is studied, investigated, and sought to be debunked.
Why not just say we're so dumb for giving.
Or you're so smart for not giving.
Maybe there's truth in both, maybe there's crap in both.
Tell me, when will you guys investigate the "exit polls" to see the questions asked and if there seems to be any "skewing" of the questions asked.
I'll be holding my breath - see, my cheeks are turning red :-[
I'm taking my moral majority and going home. ;D
DrewKaree:
Oh, and Dartful, you really should (in keeping with the style of the thread names) change the title of this thread to
Generosity vs. Election Results - 2004
That way, it'll line up with the "I.Q." thread.
I'm surprised I thought of this, with my low I.Q. ;) and I'm surprised you could spell jenerosite with yer low I.Q. ;)
Thankfully, we gave to "Hookt on Fonix"
Crazy Cooter:
I'm glad to see that this one has some mathemagics behind it. IMO, all graphs should have their source numbers right there like this one does.
A few things I'd like to note:
1- If you make less than $75,000, you're not included.
2- If you donate less than $xx, (varies by state) you don't need to itemize your charitable deductions. So you're not included either.
3- There is no need to go through all this "Having rank", "Giving rank", etc. This should be as simple as Miles per Gallon. Take the miles, divide by gallons. In this case, if you want to know donated dollar per income dollar, just divide it out. It moves things around a bit.
As a sidenote, I've been doing some research on charitable organizations themselves (shut up, you're dorky too. Look at the site we're at ;)). I am shocked at how many are a straight up con. Take "A Childs Wish" for example. Sounds legit, but check it out:http://www.give.org/reports/care2_dyn.asp?125 There's a whole pile of them at:http://www.give.org/reports/index.asp
paigeoliver:
This chart makes PERFECT sense. You have all the bible belt and heavily religous states at the top, because a good number of people in those states tithe 10 percent of their income to the church. While you have the "liberal" states down at the bottom.
I'll bet if you compared this chart to another one showing percentage of church attendance you would find a VERY similar ordering to the states.
Lots of people give bits and pieces to charities, but few other than the church tithers donate 10 percent of their income.
You could also similarly argue it as the republican states give more, but general the churchgoing states and the republican states are the same ones.