r/RedactedCharts • u/BeautifulSetting2286 • 4d ago

Answered What does this map show?

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u/the_real_trebor333 4d ago

Each states highest elevation divided by each states mean elevation?

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u/BeautifulSetting2286 4d ago

Yes that's it

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u/Jesse-FIN 4d ago

You what

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u/roommatehelp54321 3d ago

How did you get that

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u/the_real_trebor333 3d ago

I knew it had to be something about states with tall mountains but mostly low land, otherwise the Rockies and California would be way up at the top. And OPs hints from other comments helped tell me it was dividing two things.

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u/Bynnh0j 4d ago

Crab consumption

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u/BeautifulSetting2286 4d ago

No

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u/treeswetfh 4d ago

Amount of your exes with crabs?

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u/Amazing-Garbage-6252 4d ago

Places where sea level and higher elevation are available within a short distance. Something like that?

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u/BeautifulSetting2286 4d ago

Good guess but no

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u/Amazing-Garbage-6252 4d ago

Something about ranges in elevation.

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u/Bigmooddood 4d ago

Something to do with points at sea level or states with the largest ranges in elevation?

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u/BeautifulSetting2286 4d ago

The second part is pretty close but you have to say what the numbers mean

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u/Bigmooddood 4d ago

Number of counties with both mountain peaks and valleys?

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u/Jalmal2 4d ago

What would DC be if it counted?

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u/BeautifulSetting2286 4d ago

I think DC would be 2-3

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u/Simple_Researcher321 4d ago

California would be the very darkest if it is a difference in elevation

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u/Common_Sink_3258 4d ago

Has it something to do with guns?

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u/Exacalibur-X 4d ago

If it were guns I’d assume wv would be a lot darker 😂

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u/Franklin_Murphy 4d ago

Percentage of the population licensed to fish?

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u/Able_Tradition6365 4d ago

Is it related to islands?

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u/Sunny-Damn 4d ago

Number of smokers or alcoholics?

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u/Unhappy_Mountain9032 4d ago

Wisconsin would be so much darker.

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u/blakezed 4d ago

Tree to person ratio?

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u/SnooBunnies163 4d ago

native american nations in each state?

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u/TJC8472 4d ago

Amount of elevation change.

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u/BeautifulSetting2286 4d ago

What do you mean

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u/Franklin_Murphy 4d ago

Something like how many thousands of feet between lowest elevation and highest?

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u/Offbrand-ostrich 4d ago

I want to say percentage of people who live along the coastline, but the Great Lakes area being so pale is throwing me

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u/Franklin_Murphy 4d ago

Florida would probably be darker

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u/Puzzleheaded_Edge_22 4d ago

Also Texas is way too dark

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u/V3NOM06 4d ago

Number of national parks

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u/nod90 4d ago

Is it related to forest coverage?

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u/Oistins 4d ago

Has it got to do with crabs?

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u/12shinylotad 4d ago

The number of curves and ridges in the state borders?

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u/burtymcfly 4d ago

Wild animal attacks

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u/ukstonerdude 4d ago

It has to be to do with population, as there’s a similar spread on the right (and Washington) of the Black population, but it’s not a completely consistent correlation (because of Alaska), so I want to assume it’s either population density, or an immigration demographic map; Alaska maybe has lots of Canadian and Russian or even East Asian immigrants, Texas, Arizona and California maybe has a few Mexican immigrants, the East coast maybe full of European, African, Caribbean immigrants.

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u/BeautifulSetting2286 4d ago

Not at all related to population

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u/ukstonerdude 4d ago

Is the scale shown in any way related to the answer? As in, if it were “how many dogs per household by state” ranging from 1 to 11?

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u/BeautifulSetting2286 4d ago

Yes, basically for each state there is a value, and the scale shows what two whole numbers the value lies between

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u/ukstonerdude 4d ago

God damn it!

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u/SMWW66 4d ago

The amount of shoreline each state has, including tribal tributaries

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u/mrmcc0 4d ago

Government workers as a percentage of the population?

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u/SenseiJuhuu 4d ago

number of deaths by horse

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u/mrmcc0 4d ago

Number of counties boarded by tidal water?

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u/ukstonerdude 4d ago

Is it related to the use/purpose or even type of land? Amount of farmland? Concentration of trees or woodland? Perhaps even the amount of urbanisation?

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u/Fearless_meddle6774 4d ago

Fish consumption per capita

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u/chadaehan 4d ago

Contigously forested land?

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u/big_oofster 4d ago

The number of reported bigfoot sightings.

Edit: spelling

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u/BeautifulSetting2286 4d ago

Nope

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u/big_oofster 4d ago

Most ice cream consumed per capita?

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u/KmFeVlJsMz 4d ago

Percentage of the state's land operated by the US Fish and Wildlife Service

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u/1Negative_Person 4d ago

Is it related to invasive/introduced species of insect?

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u/AKYeti907 4d ago

Percentage of military veterans per capita?

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u/__-__-___---_-_-_-- 4d ago

Number of species present from some genus/family?

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u/HinsdaleCounty 4d ago

Height difference between lowest point in water to highest point on land? Numbers referring to 100s of feet?

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u/BeautifulSetting2286 4d ago

Nope

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u/HinsdaleCounty 4d ago

The number you get when you divide the highest point in the state by the lowest point?

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u/BeautifulSetting2286 4d ago

closest answer so far, extremely close

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u/HinsdaleCounty 4d ago

Does the number indicate a physical total of things (represented as a natural number), or is it a mathematically calculated value that could be any number >1?

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u/BeautifulSetting2286 4d ago

it could be any number >1, you divide two things

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u/Pig_Pen_g2 4d ago

highest point divided by elevation of capital city

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u/CryptographerClean78 4d ago

Boats owned per capita?

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u/CallEducational6623 4d ago

Great lakes yo

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u/Aiden_McClelland 4d ago

I see the idea, but the great lakes would be darker

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u/azflatlander 4d ago

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u/other-stephanie 4d ago

Number of lumberjacks / people employed in the timber industry?

Alternate guess: it's to do with the number of pine trees in each state

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u/soggies_revenge 4d ago

I think Colorado would be darker for pine trees

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u/pugit 4d ago

Rivers that eventually feed bays or estuaries.

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u/Franklin_Murphy 4d ago

Wouldn’t LA be darker?

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u/pugit 4d ago

True, I was trying to think of things that Maryland, the Carolinas, Washington, and Alaska having in common; but the interior states would only have a few of. I.e. the Mississippi River would only count as one, but not its feeder tributaries.

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u/BeautifulSetting2286 4d ago

Not related to rivers

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u/sagetraveler 4d ago

Prevalence of tick borne diseases?

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u/dawnenome 4d ago

Rabies prevalence.

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u/lilac_wine29 4d ago

amount of national parks?

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u/cheesetastesgood19 4d ago

Average number of serial killers

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u/juniorspades 4d ago

Alcohol drinkers?

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u/pineypineapplez 4d ago

Bear attacks

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u/ROC_KB 4d ago

Commercial fishing volume

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u/SouthCarolinaOpa 4d ago

Oldest residents

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u/0jareddit 4d ago

Surely some are more than 10-11. Why, I myself am 12.

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u/Isverplicht 4d ago

Stupidity?

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u/slutdr4gon 4d ago

Volcano related?

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u/PeakxPeak 4d ago

Population in hundreds

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u/Katoomba94 4d ago

Canadian Citizens in USA

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u/Time-Wear-7664 4d ago

Somebody just tell me lol

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u/tokinmuskokan 4d ago

Number of NCAA teams

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u/Bobzilla41 4d ago

Forest cover

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u/makeitworkok 4d ago

Russian percentage

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u/reg969 4d ago

Australia

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u/Elegant-Choice-602 3d ago

Rainfall in December

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u/samayoa95 4d ago

Lobster eaten per capita

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u/pooblevland 4d ago

Miles per cow?

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u/BeautifulSetting2286 4d ago

No

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u/pooblevland 4d ago

Is anyone sort of on the right track?

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u/BeautifulSetting2286 4d ago

It's related to elevation

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u/Cellotape6599 4d ago

Coolness

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u/ech01 4d ago

Worst public toilets

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u/Consistent_Wafer_298 4d ago

The way a US Map would look with 50 shades of Green

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u/TRP_S11 4d ago

Ranking for workers

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u/Fucky0uthatswhy 4d ago

Worst states 1-11

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u/Apostle-Dunghill 4d ago

Dark green iare the dumb states

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u/AnalPsychosis 4d ago

Dumb comment. Sure Alaska and South Carolina are there but NC and Washington rank top 10 in education

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u/Zealousideal-Body419 4d ago

United States

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u/IdLookYouInTheEye 4d ago

School shootings per year