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9 Responses to Belief in Evolution vs GDP
Dustin
July 15th, 2011 at 12:33
Forgot to mention that Scott Cale sent this graph in. Thanks Scott!
Robert Murphy
July 15th, 2011 at 13:23
A strange graph that’s missing China, Brazil, Russia, Canada, India, Australia, Korea, etc.
Mark
July 15th, 2011 at 13:34
When data doesn’t support your graph you just leave it off. Same approach our politicians use. π
Eli
July 15th, 2011 at 14:15
China and India are too poor to be included in the graph. In Brazil, most people believe in theistic evolution, which might be too hard to include on the graph. As for the other countries, I don’t know. π
Speedmaster
July 16th, 2011 at 01:54
>> “China and India are too poor to be included in the graph.”
I don’t follow, wouldn’t those data be especially relevant considering the huge populations?
Scott from Ohio
July 16th, 2011 at 10:18
At least the color-coded regions makes it easy to see just how much non-European regions were ignored. Hey, whatever it takes to reach your predetermined conclusion.
Bob Baker
July 16th, 2011 at 16:20
Without addressing the problem of the countries left out, I wonder what this graph would look like one hundred years ago, or two hundred.
Why this attempt to create a relationship between two things that have nothing to do with each other?
Jason
July 17th, 2011 at 10:41
The most obvious distorting factor is that the countries on the left all suffered under 50 years of communism from which they only recently emerged, and exclusion of U.S. in graph as outlier but inclusion of Turkey.
Ostap
July 20th, 2011 at 02:43
Latvia? Estonia? Lituania? Population of Latvia 2 mm makes it a dwarf country even for Europe. How about China??? Russia? India? Indonesia? How about rich and poor muslim countries>? Put these in and watch how your newly found correlation willfall apart. Anyway, the key question here is SO WHAT? Many factors affect GDP per capita and the fact that it stands alone when you plot it vs Europe basically means noting