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		tormeh on June 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Taking England back to the Dark Ages Nah. Small northern European countries outperform the mean consistently. Even the baltics are doing better than Poland. Not everything is random variation. Big countries (Pakistan: 186m, Congo: 70-something) can be pretty fucked up too. Your assumption is that the underlying natural value is independent of country size, mine is that it isn't.

jacques_chester on June 9, 2014 [–]

> Not everything is random variation.

But it must be acknowledged and accounted for. Smaller samples a regularly more variable; conclusions drawn about them are weaker.

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