Choosing the attributes and their weighting can be used to bias a ranking as desired. In this case, the bias is typical: the raters prefer countries that are Sc

Choosing the attributes and their weighting can be used to bias a ranking as desired. In this case, the bias is typical: the raters prefer countries that are Scandinavian. Attributes were: "Income equality, well-developed public education, caring about human rights, gender equality, well-developed health care systems, being considered safe, being considered family friendly and being considered happy" Not everybody values all of those things. Many people value things that are not listed. An alternate and nearly opposite list could be: chance to get rich, right to homeschool, devotion to God, mothers at home, existence of top-quality medical care, the right to defend one's children, people actually make families, proud of the country I think that the birth rate is particularly notable. If people aren't having kids, then by their actions they are indicating that they are not in a good country for having kids. The countries that got high ranks in this survey have very low birth rates. That seems to be solid evidence that they are not in fact good places to raise kids.