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Nobels per million people (population figures from putting "population of X" into Google): US 1.05; UK 1.91; Germany 1.25; France: 0.91; Sweden 3.04 The order
by gjm11 16y ago
Nobels per million people (population figures from putting "population of X" into Google):
US 1.05; UK 1.91; Germany 1.25; France: 0.91; Sweden 3.04
The ordering is very different from the BBC's (12345 -> 52314). I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that you get quite a different top 5 this way too.
- limist 16y agoThanks, my immediate reaction to the article was that data normalization was not done. Now with normalized numbers, how 'bout that Swedish nepotism? :)
- bpodgursky 16y agoTo be completely correct, you'd need to normalize the prizes over the population of each country at the time each prize was awarded, since population growth (or decline, for germany) patterns are not the same for each of those countries.