Guess the map 14: We mapped our sky before we mapped our Earth

[Samson]

Okay, something political, where Namibia, Ukraine, Serbia and Khazakstan are doing well in, and Spain, Argentina and Mongolia (among others) are doing badly in.
uh, no idea.

Is the value ranging between 0-1 meaningful? Is it populatin percentage?

It is not a percentage. I THINK it is bounded at [0 ... 1]. This is the formula if it means anything without the meaning of the values:

 

[The_J]

Well...erm... no .

(it's the sum over all absolute differences in values in a 3-dimensional space, times 1/2, which yeah...not so useful lol)

 

[red_elk]

Politics, numbers, not financial... something about opinion polls?

 

[Samson]

Politics, numbers, not financial...

Yes

something about opinion polls?

No

 

[Gelion]

Trust in government?

 

[Samson]

Trust in government?

No. That may vary as a result of this value, but is unlikely to alter it.

 

[Samson]

I said that there were multiple ways of measuring this feature. The other main one is a gini. Not wealth or income, but the calculation is the same.

 

[Gelion]

Publications per capita?

 

[Samson]

Publications per capita?

No, nothing like that.

 

[The_J]

A field of politics, where a more equal distribution is better .
Something to do with the payment of the MPs?

 

[Samson]

A field of politics, where a more equal distribution is better .

Yes, though I suppose aspect could be better than field.

Something to do with the payment of the MPs?

No

 

[The_J]

Does it have something to do with the MPs or the representation of people at all?

 

[Samson]

Does it have something to do with the MPs or the representation of people at all?

Very much so, particularly the latter.

 

[The_J]

Average number of people represented by a lawmaker?

 

[Samson]

Average number of people represented by a lawmaker?

So close, remember gini.

 

[The_J]

Standard deviation from the average then ?

 

[Samson]

Standard deviation from the average then ?

I guess that has to be close enough, though SD is not a measure they use.

The State of Malapportionment in the World: One Person, One Vote?

Malapportionment — the discrepancy between the share of legislative seats and the share of the population, or electorates, within a given geographical unit — violates one of the fundamental principles of democratic government, namely, “one person, one vote.”

First, we provide the most extensive dataset of malapportionment currently available, accumulating data from 83 countries and 216 elections. This dataset compares the following measures of malapportionment: (1) the Loosemore–Hanby index-based measure provided in Samuels and Snyder (2001), called MAL_SS, in this study, (2) the ratio of largest-to-smallest districts, or the max–min ratio (MALMAXMIN), and (3) MALGINI, which employs the calculation method of the Gini index.

Our regression analyses, using a new database we developed, show that most of the factors that previously argued to influence the degree of malapportionment are not robustly significant, except for the single-member district (SMD) electoral formula.
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This is the first, MAL_SS. I am amazed that the US is so low, I guess they count each house representative as equal to each senator.

 

[The_J]

Ah... damn, need to look for a new map.
I'll try to get one in the course of the day.

 

[The_J]

I didn't really have any good idea .

That's why you get this one :/ :

 

[stfoskey12]

Is it related to religion?