▶️ Total olympic medals won in Paris 2024 and Human Development Index 🏅
➡️ https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion-features/what-olympic-medal-table-really-tells-us
After reading the article we made this #boxplot using #LabPlot, an open source data analysis and visualization software.
The plot doesn’t provide answers, it rather invites some thinking.
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IM hearing a lot of correlation and not A whole lot of causation there, did the US have 12x the people competing in the Olympics?, did Australia pick its people from an even distribution of its populous or maybe just maybe did they Cherry pick from places that are better than the US like Sydney or Melbourne?
@stupidcasey
if a country has 12x a pool of people to pick their best athletes from, wouldn’t you agree that would hugely increase their winning chances?
If two schools compete in a chess match, 1 school has 100 students, the other 1200 students, and they both send their best chess player, with all other factors being equal, who would you put your money on?
Nope, I think both countries have more people than it would be possible to evaluate, also that’s population not living standards, also training has more to do with it than the individual initially picked also the amount of money it takes to train an athlete is such a small percentage of either country’s GDP that money just doesn’t matter either,
All that together plus the plethora of other variables makes this correlation not causation.
@stupidcasey @stupidcasey so you really seriously think based on that above chart that US and then China are the ‘best performing’ countries and the fact that they have a huge population has nothing to do with it???
