Just for fun I thought I’d illustrate a previous post about what these people do all day using a service on the web that allows you to make your own Venn diagram:

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Yeah, yeah, I know it could be done better (both in the content and the visuals) but I wanted to give it a shot.

[Cross-posted at The Monkey Cage]

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Andrew Gelman is a professor of statistics and political science and director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University.