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What works

This is the most graphic of graphic sociology so far. For those of you with delicate constitutions, give yourself a pat on the back for taking a deep breath and deciding to read the rest of this post without tossing it upon first glance.

This was published in 1976 in a book that is now out of print called The Bathroom by Alexander Kira, an architect and professor at Cornell. He was interested in the bathroom as a design challenge with an eye to the ergonomics of the fixtures and spaces commonly encountered in standard bathrooms, home to standard fixtures. The bathroom is not exactly a hotbed of design revolution so many of his ideas are not only still relevant, but still fresh. This particular diagram was used to help sort out how one might go about designing a urinal for women (if not a unisex urinal that could serve both women and men, not at the same time, though).

I usually find the use of photographs in information graphics to be superfluous. Generally, there is some graph about, say poverty or out of wedlock birth and the photograph paired with the graph takes a person and turns them into a token. The homeless man as icon of poverty; the mother and child (usually a woman of color) as icon of poignant nurturance. That sort of reductive photography has no place in information graphics. Quite frankly, I’d be happy never to see predictable, reductionist photography like that anywhere.

But in this case, Kira used a grid in the photo shoot turning the resulting photograph into an infographic. Did I mention that his ideas still seem fresh? With the grid, we have a much easier time making the visual comparison between trajectories of urine between women and men.

Imagine you are a urinal designer. Ask yourself: how would I use these diagrams to help me design a urinal that works for women? Realize that you would either pursue a trough strategy or, better, a urinal that women do not face. They could stand with their backs to it and bend forward like the woman in the third panel is doing. Of course, there are sartorial concerns. Backing up to a urinal works just fine if you are naked, like our urination model is. But what if she’s wearing clothing? That’s a different design challenge. I would be interested to see what would be possible by relocating pants’ zippers so that they open between the legs rather than in the front.

What needs work

I apologize that in some of these panels it is hard to see the stream of urine, which is a necessary piece of information. With the women, it’s pretty much straight down except when bent over at the waist. For the men, it is slightly in front of the body unless he is holding his penis in which case the trajectory is quite a bit in front of him — it leaves the photographic frame.

Third World Reggin posted:

As one of those people, and friends with quite a few others, I can help with that. There is some shame felt as being unemployed. What ever politics has done to say that unemployed people are leeches, it has worked. The people I know who can't find jobs tend to blame their selves as well as the economy. They also tend to blame only one political party instead of both.

Also, it is kinda hard to get together and riot when you got no money.

Liquid Communism posted:

Shame and fear. At least for me, I'm more worried about where next month's rent, gas to get me to any job opportunity that may come up, or even food are coming from, not so much politics.

Cerebral Bore posted:

To point out the obvious, the thing is that the causes of all those worries are directly linked to politics.

Liquid Communism posted:

Very true, but not exactly much to be done about it when the real and present worries are a lot more pressing than knowing who to vote against next election cycle.

That's the point, really. Interest in the political process requires a stable enough lifestyle to be able to concentrate on something that isn't keeping food on the table and a roof over your head.

I'm in a rare situation for the jobless, as I haven't been out of work long enough yet to loose -all- my luxuries, so I can still bitch about it on the Internet.

Deleuzionist posted:

Gas this unreadable monstrosity, start a new one with a reasonable amount of images per page.

Deleuzionist posted:

Gas this unreadable monstrosity, start a new one with a reasonable amount of images per page.

Aliquid posted:

yo i have like half a gig of ram and if anyone suggests i upgrade my computer to view the first page they're a classist gently caress

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

diphenhydramine posted:

Anosmoman posted:

Please rise for Colin Chart!

Anosmoman posted:

Please rise for Colin Chart!

Anosmoman posted:

Please rise for Colin Chart!

synftw posted:

This has always baffled me and people's geographic explanations have always seemed inadequate. Now I know!

ufarn posted:

As a non-American, I find this chart genuinely useful.

Now I just need to understand what exactly root beer is.

coffeetable posted:

And this is why economists aren't allowed near graphing paper.

post posted:

I'm pretty sure it's about the ratios of different economic sectors over time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_sector

Third World Reggin posted:

1337JiveTurkey posted:

If there's one chart that everyone in the US really needs to see with some explanation of what it means for them, it's this.

Darth Windu posted:

It seems pretty self-explanatory.

TFNC posted:

Third World Reggin posted:

Ograbme posted:

Even rich people think they have too much wealth

oxbrain posted:

There are a lot of people making over $100k who consider themselves middle class.

man thats gross posted:

I benefited a lot from social services. It would be hypocritical of me to denounce them now that I don't benefit from them anymore.

FRINGE posted:

You dont ever talk to 'normal people' about econ/politics do you?

Darth Windu posted:

I don't understand how you could explain it more succinctly than the title itself. Honestly, what else could you add to that graph to make it clearer? If someone looks at that and doesn't understand what it is saying, I don't know that anything could help them do so.

man thats gross posted:

Between my fiancee and I we clear about $110k annually (pre-tax).