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Conrad Hackett
@conradhackett
Senior Demographer at @PewResearch Also posting at conradhackett.bsky.social & sometimes at sciences.social/@conradhackett
Washington, DC
Joined September 2009
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    STATISTICS OF THE YEAR: Americans killed annually by All Islamic jihadist terrorists 9 Armed toddlers 21 Lightning 31 Lawnmowers 69 Being hit by a bus 264 Falling out of bed 737 Being shot by another American 11,737 rss.org.uk/RSS/Get_involv…
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    Workers working 60+ hours a week in one job 🇹🇷 Turkey 23% 🇰🇷 S Korea 23% 🇮🇩 Indonesia 14% 🇮🇳 India 14% 🇬🇷 Greece 11% 🇯🇵 Japan 9% 🇨🇳 China 6% 🇬🇧 UK 5% 🇫🇷 France 5% 🇧🇷 Brazil 4% 🇷🇺 Russia 4% 🇪🇸 Spain 4% 🇺🇸 US 4% 🇩🇪 Germany 3% 🇸🇪 Sweden 2%
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    This map shows travel time from London in 1881
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    Check this out -- major cities in North America replaced by major cities across the Atlantic at the same latitude reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comm…
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    Each dot is a US adult's guess about the location of North Korea nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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    We worry about the wrong things. Exhibit A: #SharkWeek People killed annually by Sharks 10 Elephants 100 Hippos 500 Snails 10,000 Dogs 25,000 Snakes 50,000 People 475,000 Mosquitoes 725,000
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    Los Angeles county is home to more people than each of these 41 states
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    TRUMP EFFECT: Change in % confident in US president from Obama to Trump Sweden 🔻83 points Germany 🔻75 S Korea 🔻71 France 🔻70 Spain 🔻68 Canada 🔻61 UK 🔻57 Australia 🔻55 Brazil 🔻49 Mexico 🔻44 Russia 🔺42 points pewglobal.org/2017/06/26/u-s…
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    Watch the income distribution in America change
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    Trickle down: Income growth in America from 1980 to 2014 Top .001%: 616% growth Top .01%: 423% growth Top .1%: 298% growth Top 1%: 194% growth Top 10%: 113% growth Bottom 20% 4% growth washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…
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    Check out this cool elevation map of the contiguous US by @cstats1
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    Be sure to catch the end of this clever @NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2021 climate.nasa.gov/climate_resour…
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    Replying to @conradhackett
    Where nobody in the UK lives map by @georgia_corr