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It should be ranked by per capita population. Tiny countries (like Japan or UK) winning more than half gold of US is way more impressive to me.
by nayaketo 5y ago
It should be ranked by per capita population. Tiny countries (like Japan or UK) winning more than half gold of US is way more impressive to me.
- jszymborski 5y agoInteresting! Perhaps we can do something like: 3 * gold + 2 * silver + bronze + β1 / population + β2 / GDP where β1 and β2 are some coefficients. How do we choose these coefficients? Maybe try to run a simple regression to see how historically predictive pop and GDP are of a nations score w/o the GDP and pop terms.
- KingOfCoders 5y agoSee my other comment of 'total medals/number of residents', Japan is in the middle (same level as Germany, France and Russia), New Zealand is at the top, then Australia, the Netherlands and GB (probably some others, I only calculated the number for the top of the rankings).