The Economist's Medium blog explains editorial choices, data journalism, and charts, with posts on corrections and anonymous authorship.
Commenters link it to explain why writers are anonymous and for its data visualization retrospective, and some defend the publication's quality and rigor.
Context is important, this is targeted at journalists. They are usually trying to make a point to casual readers.
For readers with more interest or who are numerate in their day jobs (engineers, finance, or economists), dual axis charts can often be a great choice.
This is better graph style advice from the Economist, which includes good dual axis examples and one bad one and how to correct it. https://medium.economist.com/mistakes-weve-drawn-a-few-8cdd8a42d368
Since we are engineers or founders trying to deal with very complex systems, adding detail and clarity like the Economist or Edward Tufte does is the better way to go.
“Gender” is related to “genre”, and means merely a group of nouns lumped together for grammatical purposes. Linguists talk instead of “noun classes”, which may have to do with shape or size, or whether the noun is animate, but often rules are hard to see. George Lakoff, a linguist, memorably described a noun class of Dyirbal (spoken in north-eastern Australia) as including “women, fire and dangerous things”.
To the extent that genders are idiosyncratic, they are hard to learn. Bora, spoken in Peru, has more than 350 of them.
https://medium.economist.com/we-went-in-search-of-the-worlds-hardest-language-95a27c2cff3
I've been reading the Economist for more than 15 years. I couldn't disagree with you more. This publication gets posted here so often because it is excellent IMO. It has a great balance of humor and rigor, they have great insights based on data, common trends, public opinion, government stance, etc. Weekly, I read a hard copy of it usually on Sunday mornings. Perhaps, I am biased of off habit.
They admit their mistakes openly: https://medium.economist.com/mistakes-weve-drawn-a-few-8cdd8a42d368
Except CS, or if you an international Olympiad champion, PhD is a bad idea across the board. Even if someone thinks they want to do a PhD, its better to work for a few years to understand market forces so they can do a thesis that is not fully removed from reality. This medium blog post from economist is a worthy read
https://medium.economist.com/why-doing-a-phd-is-often-a-waste-of-time-349206f9addb
The stabilising effect of monogamy isn't to prevent wars between nations and societies, it's to manage violence and conflict within a society. It works too and is not just a small effect. Of the 20 most unstable countries in the world, all 20 are very to somewhat polygamous[0].
[0]https://medium.economist.com/big-love-and-big-war-exploring-the-link-between-polygamy-and-violence-67306fb3c41b
Well, they only started using R a year or so ago, so they can be forgiven.
> Until fairly recently, we were less comfortable with statistical software (like R) that allows more sophisticated visualisations.
https://medium.economist.com/mistakes-weve-drawn-a-few-8cdd8a42d368