It seems like an awfully convenient metric too, just pick the thing that western nations are guaranteed to have and the poorer nations can’t have (and forget ab

It seems like an awfully convenient metric too, just pick the thing that western nations are guaranteed to have and the poorer nations can’t have (and forget about China). I see a little chicken and egg problem here. This reminds of Stephen J. Gould’s Mismeasure of a Man. People would say that intelligence could be seen by measuring the size of the skull—knowing off course before hand that white people had the largest skull—and hence were the most intelligent (!) Until of course they actually measured the skulls properly, and found out it wasn’t any bigger, then they just moved on to the next metric that conveniently showed that white people were more intelligent.