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Do Democrats and Republicans Grade Differently?

Apparently:

“When it comes to grading, Republican and Democratic professors at one unnamed elite university put their ideologies into practice, a new study finds: Republicans welcomed inequality, handing out more very high and very low grades, and Democrats’ grades grouped more tightly around the average.

Republicans also gave black students lower grades than their colleagues. In both cases, the researchers stressed, there was no way to know which approach better reflected students’ performance.”

Visualizing Economic Complexity

Here  is a picture of the Indian economy between 1962 and 2009 (click on the picture for a bigger view):

The picture helps visualizing Indian economic development over the past 50 years.The turquoise dots that emerge in the lower right-hand corner between 1962 and 2009 represent the emergence of India’s high-tech industry. Likewise, the purple dots that emerge in the middle of the lower half between 1962 and 2009 represent the emergence of India’s chemicals industry.