About me
I am a graduate of Grinnell College with a degree in Biological Chemistry. The name of this blog is derived from the name I use in Chinese, 孟柏民 (Mèng Bómín).
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Monthly Archives: September 2010
A closer look at the Pew survey
In my previous post I did a quick overview of the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey carried out by the Pew Research Center. To supplement those initial impressions, I’m posting a color-coded table of group performance within the subcategories of questions … Continue reading
The Pew survey on religious knowledge
The Pew Research Center, as it is prone to do from time to time, released a religion oriented poll of Americans today, this time on the level of religious knowledge among Americans. The main takeaway picked up by major news … Continue reading
Two interesting points
I left a comment on Eric Fischer’s photoset laying out some of my thoughts on the coloring of his urban racial/ethnic distribution maps, to which he had the following response: Thanks for trying out some other colors! To my (red-green-colorblind) … Continue reading
Musings on map coloration
While checking my feed reader for the day, I noticed that Andrew Gelman had come across the same set of maps by Eric Fischer that I referenced in the previous post. Intrigued, I checked the comments. At the time, the … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Musings
Tagged Andrew Gelman, Asian, Bill Rankin, black, Chicago, Eric Fischer, Hispanic, race, Steve Sailer, white
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American metropolitan racial segregation mapped
FlowingData pointed out a stunning array of maps showing racial distributions in 40 major American metropolitan areas made by Eric Fischer. Fischer modeled his maps off of the following presentation of the racial distribution of Chicago done by Bill Rankin: … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Politics
Tagged Chicago, Detroit, Eric Fischer, LA, Los Angeles, Maps, New York City, NYC, race
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9 years after 9/11
Yesterday, my day was focused around taking the MCAT exam West Des Moines, so this post is obviously a day late. In a way this was an interesting coincidence since I was sitting in 9th grade biology class when I … Continue reading
Posted in Current events, Media, Politics
Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Iraq, New York, Park51, September 11
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