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Continents are a little coarse of a unit here, don't you think? You could choose to use them and treat them as an aggregate of some sort, but I think you end up
by grzm 9y ago
Continents are a little coarse of a unit here, don't you think? You could choose to use them and treat them as an aggregate of some sort, but I think you end up losing a lot of information when you do so.
- jabgrabdthrow 9y agoWould the parent comments point change if you did anything but the equivalent of statistical gerrymandering for the two continents? You are why people voted Trump
- grzm 9y agoI don't think it makes sense to consider the arbitrary geographic landmasses as meaningful cultural units. Do you consider Canada, Mexico, and the US as meaningfully the same? France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Serbia, and Sweden? Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela? Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, and Tanzania? Not to mention Asia and Australia/Oceania. (And then again, how are you going to divide your continents? Wikipedia provides 5 different recommendations.) Even if you're only considering Europe and Africa, are you including Russia part of Europe (as opposed to Asia)? How about Turkey? I don't consider it gerrymandering to consider sovereign nation states differently. We're talking orders of magnitude difference in economies and all varieties of government types.
- andrepd 9y agoYes it would. It's not statistical gerrymandering. It's categorising by continent that is a gross oversimplification. Just notice you're lumping, say, South Africa and Niger in the same category. This alone should tell you how bad that categorization is. >You are why people voted Trump Wat