Guess what the Graph Shows!

[Lance]

Sheesh, really?

I have no idea and even I could get it now.

[Lianachan]

There's certainly a strong link to the rise and fall of the Roman Empire.

[Heid the Ba]

I was thinking Scotland for some reason.

Population of Rome, which was very low after the Fall until the C19th? I notice it is in decline now which would make sense as well.

[Мастер]

Seems to me the second peak comes too late to be slave-related.

[Lianachan]

Population of Rome, which was very low after the Fall until the C19th? I notice it is in decline now which would make sense as well.

Yup!

[Мастер]

Ah. I didn't realise it was falling now.

[Lianachan]

I didn't know it was falling now, either. I was actually trying to find a different graph to do with population in the Roman Empire, but couldn't locate it online. I had a fuck-it-that'll-do moment when I saw that, much simpler, one.

[Heid the Ba]

[pedant mode] The graph shows the population of Rome during the Republic as well as the Empire.[/pedant mode]

I had a client come in first thing this morning and he quoted Cicero! Fife, where some of the nutters are educated . . .

[Heid the Ba]

Ah. I didn't realise it was falling now.

The population of a lot of old cities fell through the C20th as people moved out of high density housing to the suburbs.

[Lianachan]

[pedant mode]I didn't say the graph submitted was exclusively to do with the Empire, just the one I couldn't find on line. A pity, as it's a cool one (and almost impossible to guess, I suspect).[/pedant mode]

I had a client come in first thing this morning and he quoted Cicero! Fife, where some of the nutters are educated . . .

I'm very impressed. You clearly have a better class of nutter there. What was the quote?

[Heid the Ba]

"No man is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year."

[Lianachan]

Oh, very good indeed. I doff my non-existent cap to him.

[Arneb]

Very nice one, that quote. You see abundant examples of it if you work in palliative care.

And a very, VERY niche graph.

Heid, what are you going to give us?

[Lianachan]

Heid, what are you going to give us?

Hee haw, apparently....

[Heid the Ba]

I am posting challenged so if someone else has one please submit.

[Arneb]

Soooo...Something straight, and declining. Feels about right, for a married father in his late 40s.

[tubeswell]

Your libido, not mine

[Arneb]

Dang, I hadn't thought of that aspect...

No, the graph represents certain economic figures. The x-axis denotes time, and the y-axis represents dimensionless numbers to be multiplied factored by a power of ten I won't disclose.

[Мастер]

OK, so the y-axis is a ratio, maybe the power of 10 is 100, because the numbers are percentages. But that's just one possibility.

So it's not price per 1000€ of life insurance cover. Can't be total debt as percentage of income. Let me think about it.

[Arneb]

OK, so the y-axis is a ratio,

Err, no. I probably put that badly, but what I waanted to say was that the numbers have no unit behind them and that you must multiply them by some power of ten to get to the actual number.

[Arneb]

OK, hint. X-axis is time form 2003 until 2012. The trend has since continued.

[Мастер]

Not hours of leisure time per week. Not pints of alcohol per week.

I don't know.

[Lianachan]

A population of somewhere, in millions?

[tubeswell]

birthrate in the billions as we have got older?

[Arneb]

Millions is correct ((so the power of ten is 6), but not the items named.

I'd say there is a very indirect connection to what we do here on this board.

It's the economy, folks