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One the one hand, yes. On the other hand, you don't need to normalize anything to see that we should probably stop classifying hurricanes as "natural disasters"
by curun1r 8y ago
One the one hand, yes. On the other hand, you don't need to normalize anything to see that we should probably stop classifying hurricanes as "natural disasters" and start calling them something that indicates what they really are...totally-expected extreme weather patterns.
- danbruc 8y agoIt's not about what you want to call them, it's about producing a meaningful map. If you want to show where disasters regularly occur and you want to use the costs of the damages as a proxy, then you have to normalize it, otherwise you may just produce a map of the value of assets.