How to be SUCCESSFUL at EVERYTHING: 31 Charts to Restore your Faith in Humanty

8/10/15

English: This is a projected number of good faith, vandal, spammer, and sockpuppet editors. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

While reading articles online this weekend, I came across this interesting article over at The Washington Post by Brad Plumer called 31 Charts to Restore your Faith in Humanity. These days I sometimes feel it would take 131 charts to pull off that job but, I am being optimistic and sharing the article with all of you. I hope it works for you.

Earlier this week, Rob Wile of Business Insider posted his graph-heavy opus: "31 Charts That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity." Naturally, we here at Wonkblog were all eager to see the results. But we'd quibble a bit with Wile's interpretations of the data. His charts all struck us as horrible news. So we're re-analyzing them here with the proper, gloom-heavy spin: 1) Inter-state wars are on the rise since 2002. Zoom in on that pink line: