Guess the map 11: New map at least once per year

[Kyriakos]

Spice production or something ? That's the link I find between hungarian paprika spanish chorizo, Tex-Mex food and India

May be correct, but Hungary isn't non-yellow on the map (Austria is)

 

[AdrienIer]

May be correct, but Hungary isn't non-yellow on the map (Austria is)

Ah, a second reason for it to be false, I misread the map

 

[metatron]

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Hopefully it isn't TOO obvious

Number of official languages.
Official state languages not some sort of recognition stuff.
Orange 0, yellow 1, light green 2, dark green more, blue and purple a fecalton.

I could argue multiple cases off hand that i would bet are "errors" or at least dubious, but the overall picture is still pretty much uncanny.
I suppose the source dataset is being nitpicky or defines the category awkwardly or something.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Well done: metatron!

 

[metatron]

Well done: metatron!

Thanks, but i'm still in my corner of autobahn-shame.

 

[inthesomeday]

Number of official languages.
Official state languages not some sort of recognition stuff.
Orange 0, yellow 1, light green 2, dark green more, blue and purple a fecalton.

I could argue multiple cases off hand that i would bet are "errors" or at least dubious, but the overall picture is still pretty much uncanny.
I suppose the source dataset is being nitpicky or defines the category awkwardly or something.

You got it

 

[metatron]

You got it

Open floor.

 

[Arakhor]

Is English really the official state language of the UK? I wasn't aware we even had a state language.

 

[metatron]

Is English really the official state language of the UK? I wasn't aware we even had a state language.

Yes-ish.
You people don't call it the same thing as (many) continental Europeans do with their official state language, but you have - very English thing, that - made up your own weird category that pretty much means that.
I don't remember "national language" or some such.

The more curious case is Australia, which i would have thought had a much stronger claim to being orange than the UK.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Is English really the official state language of the UK? I wasn't aware we even had a state language.

That is because you are not an immigrant nor married to one.

The Official Home Office website

https://www.gov.uk/english-language

makes it pretty clear that (setting aside EU migrants which is a separate debate) one must:

"Prove your knowledge of English for citizenship and settling"

of fall into a too old or mentally or physically disadvantaged category

 

[Arakhor]

That would make sense. Like so many things, we don't define one in law, but still insist on having it nonetheless.

 

[warpus]

It's always surprised me that the U.S. has never codified an official language. Being a country of immigrants, you'd think they'd want to have an official language, in case another language other than English starts taking over. You'd also think it'd be relatively easy to pass too. So I'm curious why it's never been done? "Don't need to" is a good answer, but.. Are there any negatives/cons of having a national language that I'm not thinking of?

 

[Takhisis]

‘States' rights’.

 

[civvver]

I'm a little behind, but yes hagan daz is just a name made up by the founder of the company to sound fancy like it's from Europe to trick people into thinking they're eating imported ice cream. Really what happened was the guy was making money just doing ice cream bars and stuff, but then lost a lot of market share to competitors and decided to beat them he would make ultra premium ice cream and give it a fancy name and it worked, brand created, premium prices, good ice cream. The reason it's so good is cus most ice creams contain cheap emulsifiers (the stuff that makes your ice cream stick together instead of separating) like caregeen gum and other stuff I can't pronounce, while hagan daz still uses egg yolks so it tastes richer.

 

[metatron]

Open floor.

Since nobody is picking it up...
I first thought i'd give you a very easy map.
Instead i am giving you a wrong map.
I made it wrong. Two more countries should be green.
I am asking for the datapoint represented, and you have to name the two countries i screwed you with.
Of course you have to.
Trust me. It's still fairly easy.

 

[Synobun]

Countries that are marked as green. The two missing countries are Greenland and Iceland.

 

[inthesomeday]

Is the "+2" relative to some universal standard? Is the standard based on another country's value for this statistic?

 

[metatron]

Countries that are marked as green. The two missing countries are Greenland and Iceland.

Neither of the two missing countries is Greenland.
Neither of the two missing countires is Iceland.

Is the "+2" relative to some universal standard? Is the standard based on another country's value for this statistic?

No.
The rather large +2 is nothing more but a mental aid, reminding you folks that two more countries should be green.

The bar i'm raising is lower than it first seems. If you you knew the 2 missing countries you'd immediatly successfully guess the datapoint.
And vice versa.

 

[Arakhor]

Are we missing India and either Turkey or Russia, where it's non-European nations in Civilisation?

 

[Kyriakos]

Are we missing India and either Turkey or Russia, where it's non-European nations in Civilisation?

Sudan is in civilization? (or is it meant as part of pharaonic egypt at times?)

Also, Somalia?

Also: the green country in lower Africa is not Zulu.

Thailand is in Civ4 i think, or 5. Khmer.

Maps looks suspiciously 'muslamic'.