A little while ago, we addressed the whole “gun owners are stupid hicks / there should be an intelligence test for firearm ownership” idiocy, and fairly well blew it out of the water, if I do say so myself. Today, we are going to go about it a different way.
Quantcast is a wonderfully interesting statistics-tracking system for webpages, and provides reports on everything from specific traffic referrers to geographic data to demographics, and today we are going to look at the latter. Below are four images, representing Quantcast’s demographic data for The Violence Policy Center, Say Uncle, The Brady Campaign, and this webpage (I would have used anti-rights weblogs as counterpoints, but none of them had enough traffic to show up in Quantcast – go figure)… the images have been reorganized, however.
Your task is to determine which graphic matches up to which webpage:
1.
2.
3.
4.
And no fair looking it up!
I make no claims as to the accuracy and effectiveness of Quantcast’s tracking system – I honestly have no idea how they determine if a visitor has a graduate school degree – but it is fun to look at regardless; and it adequately demonstrates that the stereotypes and bigotry shown by anti-rights nuts are typically not founded in anything approximating facts or honesty.
I would have to say the most educated and wealthy read this site. Also, they choose Other as a race because they consider themselves an AMERICAN. I would have thought more women read your site. That’s what throws me. The others? I could care less. haha. (Actually, I couldn’t tell.)
FYI I just plugged in a bunch of anti-gun sites, and most of them don’t have the traffic to produce numbers. : ]
[...] Linoge takes an interesting stab at all of Mr. Baird’s claims that we’re ignorant. I think we [...]
Sorry, they “just know” that gun owners are stupid, uneducated, blue collar rednecks. You can’t provide counter-evidence with your “graphs” because you probably don’t know what a “graph” is anyway.
As a somewhat related aside, I shoot (and live) in one of the anti-gun states, and a huge percentage of my fellow shooters are engineers or similar ‘hard’ scientists. I’m not surprised that there might be education and income disparities in favor of gun owners (which you’ve talked about previously), simply because there are some occupations that predispose someone towards liking interesting machines that go bang!
@Rosemary – Regarding the male/female split, undoubtedly these graphics will be used to fuel the ongoing stereotype that all gun owners are overweight, white males, but sometimes you just have to go with it what you have, and let the bigots be bigots.
@Weer’d Beard – Yup, the Brady Bunch and the VPC were the only ones I thought of and checked that actually tripped Quantcast’s attention threshold.
@ZK – Yup, all us here dumb rednecks just copy-paste, and mindlessly repeat what our massas tell us to… like “gunz r bad” and “assault weapon bans r good” and… oh… wait…
Hell, I cannot think of a single applied engineer major I knew back at GT who did not like things that went “bang”, “boom”, “woosh”, or a variety of other high-energy noises. I am not sure if it is a matter of smart people liking complex machinery that does interesting things, or just that the majors and the hobbies attract the same kinds of people, but there is definitely a relationship there somewhere.
@All – You guys suck for not actually, y’know, guessing
.
1 and 4 pro gun, 2 and 3 anti gun.
Can’t have any more confidence in my answer than that.
Well, at least that was a guess
.
[...] 10 days back, I put up a post with four website’s names and four demographic data charts from Quantcast, and asked my [...]