11-12-2019, 01:37 PM
(11-11-2019, 05:52 AM)Hintergrund Wrote:(11-09-2019, 05:21 PM)Anthony Wrote: Rather interesting that Equatorial Guinea ranks 174th out of 180 countries in "freedom" despite having the highest Gini index in the world (65.0).
Where's the connection? Gini measures inequality (and not very well).
It is good for
(1) comparisons of countries with similar levels of economic development (let us say France, Japan, and the United States -- or China and Mexico)
(2) contrasts of regions within a country (New England and "Dixie", northeastern and southeastern Brazil)
(3) internal contrasts between ethnic groups within a country (Mexican-Americans versus Chinese-Americans), and
(4) contrasts over time (USA 1929, USA 1939).
Any statistical metric must be applied with due care for relevance.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.