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What a dumb chart. It obviously left out data that wouldn't make its point: Canada, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Italy, ...

• netcan 18y ago
  UAE/Saudi might be more wierd points (wierd circumstances after all). I don't think Israel, Italy & Canada would be as strikingly off map as the US. It may be a dumb map. But I think you might be able to draw correlation even if you take all countries into account.
• cubix 18y ago
  As a Canadian, I would be awfully surprised to see Canada up there with the US. Note that religion hasn't been a factor in Canadian elections for several decades.
  • wheels 18y ago
    To be clear, I don't suspect those countries would be on par with the US, merely that they would be outlying points showing a less perfect distribution. Beyond that though, wow. I'm amazed that a poor article on something so far from Hacker News got upvoted so many times.
  • KWD 18y ago
    Which is why I want to move to Canada.
• robg 18y ago
  Missing data points doesn't argue against the main point: The correlation is -.80: that's amazing especially in contrast with where the U.S. stands. Still, I agree that I'd love to see this data with every country included. But I highly doubt it would change the correlation that much.