Monday, May 25, 2015

Vox: New Yorker, one of country's most liberal magazines, "Women and minorities are way under-represented" in iconic cartoons

From Vox: "Someone did a statistical analysis of New Yorker cartoons and it's actually pretty depressing"; an excerpt from the article:
     Recently, in a series of articles, the semi-satirical journal Proceedings of the Natural Institute of Science conducted a thorough statistical analysis of a very important topic: New Yorker cartoons. [emphasis added]
     Okay, so the basic idea of analyzing these alternately beloved and mocked cartoons is admittedly a little tongue-in-cheek in the first place.
     But Matt J. Michel and the series' other authors actually looked at real data — they coded every cartoon the magazine published in 2014 — and they came to some pretty depressing findings about the portrayal of non-white dudes in one of the country's most liberal magazines.
Women and minorities are way under-represented in these cartoons
I'm not a fan of editorial cartoons but maybe I should start paying more attention to what appears in The Palm Beach Post.