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Corruption indicators in Mexico

As you can see there is only a slight positive correlation between the corruption index of the Mexican chapter of Transparency International and the percentage of students who cheated on the Grade 6 ENLACE test*. What I find surprising is that there is a negative correlation between GDP per capita ...

Another Visualization of Unemployment

One of the problems with choropleths is that, as explained by Hadley Wickham in this presentation, big states tend to draw more attention because of their size, but they also tend to have a low population Density. For example, Mexico City, the capital of Mexico and it’s industrial and ...

Visualizing Unemployment in Mexico

What has been the impact of the economic crisis on employment? And how has it affected the different regions of Mexico?

To answer the questions the first step was to obtain the unemployment data from the Banco de Información Económica at the INEGI. The data is available only at the ...


The unmarried parenthood rate in Mexico

Births to unmarried mothers


Use anchoring to lose years off your age

It is well known in psychology that the way a question is asked can strongly influence the answer. For example, if you spin a random number wheel and later have people guess the proportion of United Nations countries that are African, their answers closely follow the number the wheel landed ...

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