Guess the Map IV: A Thousand Cries for "Hint Please!"

American Cars?
Hunting Guns?
Casino interior things?
Racing Cars?
The rubber used for that specific place under the other specific place on a space shuttle?
 
Agriculture per capita?
 
Recreational boats per capita?
 
mitsho said:
American Cars?
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Racing Cars?
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Close enough. It was passenger cars per 1,000 people. I had intended to do vehicles / 1,000 (light trucks / SUVs) but as I said, wrong data set. Americans scored low on the cars since they have so many SUVs pickups and minivans.
 
oh ok well, I was more thinking of Cars of American Brands than, but yeah ;-) I was torn between a Europe-based map and the following, should be rather easy as it has high correlation with things done in here a lot.

It is a measurement of something not measurable (from the social sciences), it is sthg based on tow dimensions where the blue countries fulfill both and the red ones either not the threshold of both combined (Morocco) or one but not the other or neither in descending ranking...

So the question probably is not what it is supposed to depict but how did he get to that ranking... So, what factor makes this measurement different from the other ones? The data is from 2000 and is actually continous and I put quite arbitrary tresholds between the blue countries (10%).

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Yes, it's Democracy. That's not the hard part though, the hard part is what did he measure to get to this result, it's two components which can be measured with hard numbers. Which ones? Btw. the formula is D = A * B / 100 whereas both A and B have a theoretical range of 0 to 100 and the threshold for Democracy is 30 for A and 10 for B and 5 for the composed index (should be 3 as 30*10/100 is 3).

@NedimNapoleon, Freedom of Press is not incorporated
@Save_Ferris Venezuela is explained as the data is for the year 2000, I think before Chavez became totally radical ;)

(We could of course stop now and go to the next one but I think it's interesting to think about the concept of democracy a bit more)
 
The Voter turnout, specifically the number of people who voted in the last election divided by the number of inhabitants is one of the dimensions, called participation, correct.

Since I will be away for the next days I guess it's your turn now, NedimNapoleon. The spoiler includes the description of the other dimension as well as one link, if anyone's interested.

Spoiler :
The other dimension would have been Competition and is the 100 - the % of the biggest party. The beauty of the thing is that of course, everybody holds elections, even if they are not fair of free, so you can create an index with a high reliability. The debate then of course centers on the dimensions not taken into account by Vanhanen, namely for example control or various forms of input thinkable. The Vanhanen Index also centers on the idea of representative and liberal democracy. Who says that elections are a good thing?

The other beauty is although it is a quite simple measurement, it has a high correlation with other indizes which makes it somehow worth for furter consideration. Take the other side here and look at Freedom House, who still refuse to tell how they are actually measuring their index (Who does it? What rules? etc. ...)

http://www.prio.no/CSCW/Datasets/Governance/Vanhanens-index-of-democracy/
 
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