This is a weird one. Bear with me. From !dataisbeautiful@lemmygrad.ml:

So I said to myself, “that’s a little bit weird. The US one going up, I can actually believe, but the North Korea one being lower is definitely wrong.”

I think Our World In Data is just being shoddy, as they often do.

https://www.wfp.org/countries/democratic-peoples-republic-korea

https://www.statista.com/statistics/269924/countries-most-affected-by-hunger-in-the-world-according-to-world-hunger-index/

The thing I found funny, and why I’m posting here, comes from observing why it was that they started their graph at 2003 and exactly at 2003.

I feel like you could use this as a slide in a little seminar in “how to curate your data until it matches your conclusion, instead of the other way around.”

And also, I don’t think the hunger rate suddenly dropped from epic to 0 exactly in 2003, I think more likely Our World in Data is just a little bit shoddy about their data.

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I believe the link I provided which was an international relief effort with monitoring and the other links provided by others that showed food was delivered and reached people. It didn’t drop to 0 immediately but it did lower.

    Why would Kim exaggerate the benefits of Western aid?

    • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      17 days ago

      I didn’t say kim exaggerated western aid, why do you say that?

      The NK regime just lies to look strong and not feeble, a classic from dictators.

      What we know about NK is that they are struggling with food today.