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> Clearly some countries are much more important than others, and it is fairly easy to make a decent ranking of importance "Important" in this way? At least by
by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
> Clearly some countries are much more important than others, and it is fairly easy to make a decent ranking of importance
"Important" in this way? At least by the current methodology, it's fairly bias-free, which if you add "Countries that are more important than others weight more" to the mix you cannot call it bias-free anymore.
- pinkmuffinere 1y agoCounting each country equally is itself a bias -- it slides the weighting 100% towards international recognition of a country. As a result, Somalia and Morocco are weighted equally, which is obviously incorrect; nobody is upset if they can't go to Somalia. A common-sense weighting would be imperfect, but almost certainly better than an equal weighting on each county. "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good". edit: it _SHOULD NOT MATTER_, but I grew up in Turkey, am half Persian, and am very liberal. If that matters to you, please think good and hard about what kind of person you have become.
- oceansky 1y agoIt's close, but the existence or not of some countries is sometimes disputed.