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tothemoonkevsta t1_j2sh795 wrote

It’s nice and interesting but it could be good to make the colour difference between the two darker blues even clearer

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GamingRanger t1_j2t4j0q wrote

How on earth does Saudi Arabia have a high HDI. Does it only calculate life expectancies and stuff like that?

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PickleMan1212 t1_j2t5591 wrote

Why does Africa always suck?? Isn’t there like 75 countries there??

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Lanky_Fella t1_j2totp9 wrote

Replying to PickleMan1212 (#1,272,255)

‘Suck’ is a bit rough. All of Africa (except Ethiopia) has only been independent for around 70 years (some even less) after colonisation. Plus most of Africa had the furthest to go to reach western standards of development, in terms of infrastructure.

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EclecticKant t1_j2tqjcj wrote

Replying to pk10534 (#1,272,899)

The HDI is a geometric mean, outliers have a smaller impact compared to arithmetic means. Their GDP per Capita is good, life expectancy is ok and education seems to be decent. Unfortunately the HDI doesn't consider many important parameters

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felix_using_reddit t1_j2tr3l3 wrote

The HDI is not really a good way of measuring human development, unfortunately. For example tax havens have an unfair advantage and in general the amount of factors taken into account is just way too little to give an accurate depiction. There are far better indices taking a look at development that are worth seeing.

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Slow-Substance-6800 t1_j2uolqs wrote

If French Guiana is considered to be France on the map, why Greenland is not considered to be Denmark?

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gaburieru_cl t1_j2uzhl2 wrote

How beautiful to see my Chile representing Latam 🇨🇱❤️🌎

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ktulenko t1_j2v5n1e wrote

Japan is lower than you otherwise think it would be due to the low status of women.

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Due_Station9730 t1_j2vdadi wrote

It’s really interesting to me that the country that was founded by one of the most aggressive, and hardened groups of people in history, the Vikings, has with time become one of the most peaceful countries in the world and consistently ranks at the top of every one of these “happiness” indicators. No opinion. I just find that really interesting. Hell, Australia wasn’t exactly founded by a bunch of nuns either. I wonder what the correlation could be?

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flufflycatt t1_j2vq9vq wrote

No wonder why 1,5/4 of South America is on Chile

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SnooLobsters8922 t1_j2vs7jc wrote

Replying to Purplekeyboard (#1,273,496)

I’m sorry to bring it up but being January and that time to rethink our lives I will say it.

This has to be the laziest question I’ve ever seen in Reddit.

First, because you could have typed the same question in Google and not ask anyone to type it for you, but switching apps would be too much work, who cares

Second, because Google would give you an answer in 0.39 seconds and Reddit took 2 hours to reply. But who is on a rush, right

Just an observation

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mo_alanazii t1_j2vs8ul wrote

Replying to GamingRanger (#1,272,224)

Why is not? Here in Saudi Arabia we have well paid jobs, a very good education system, free high quality health care, a fast growing economy, self sufficiency of energy, and the very important thing is all the world depends on us supplying them with energy.

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SnooLobsters8922 t1_j2vsdll wrote

Replying to Lanky_Fella (#1,273,184)

It’s way beyond suck, it’s a massive clusterfuck and it’s the saddest thing that has ever happened in the world, literally (I’m sure who read thought it’s the holocaust, but Africa didn’t get that Oscar winning Spielberg movie).

Unfortunately I don’t think colonization explains all of it. Maybe warlords explain quite a lot

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Varth_Dader1337 t1_j2vt1dp wrote

Replying to SnooLobsters8922 (#1,276,978)

Bro this is a public forum/board, other people will read this, and have an even quicker answer right here. When u say something on reddit u gotta think that someone else will also read what you post. Sure everyone could google themselves but whats the point of posting something that requires previous knowledge and context. His question adds to the overall post.

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BravaisPearson t1_j2w16u1 wrote

Replying to mo_alanazii (#1,276,979)

how does the last fact make saudi arabia more developed? why not? because human/woman rights are important to determine how high the human development is in an country. at least 50% of the population are living in a low developed environment...

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mo_alanazii t1_j2w2aux wrote

Replying to BravaisPearson (#1,277,289)

Can you please prove your 50% with evidence? Talking is much easier than action. While people around the world are struggling with COVID-19 we all here in Saudi Arabia citizens and foreign taking the vaccine for free in an easy electronic way to get vaccine appointments. What does the west give to human rights? Without the energy you can't survive you will find yourself freezing at home, without energy the hospitals that provides health care for poor people, can't run their medical devices. Without energy a school or a university can't receive students. Without energy you can't even post this reply. We don't pretend human rights, we do human rights.

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_crazyboyhere_ OP t1_j2w5xqc wrote

Replying to ktulenko (#1,275,982)

Technically you're right. For example both Japan and SK overall have higher HDI than USA, but if we break down that into genders/sex, HDI of men in Japan and SK are still higher than men in America, but HDI of women in America is higher than that of Japan and SK.

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SnooLobsters8922 t1_j2w8bxu wrote

Replying to Darki_Boi (#1,277,414)

I took more than that, I have edited the message to the best of my abilities to be understood, since English is not my native language. But the estimation of value is not one of productivity and precision here, such as the Google X Reddit Q&A, but at the compound effect in the world my message can bring about.

See, the message is not addressed only to the author of the message to which I have replied. The message may have a bigger, personal impact on him/her/they, but every reader who stumble upon the message — such as yourself — may derive conclusions.

Some of these conclusions may be towards my goal, which is to raise awareness to the economy of the pursuit of knowledge on the internet. I hope to have brought awareness of the gain in being continuously more proactive towards seeking answers for the questions life throws upon us.

Your reaction, adamantly against what I have arrogantly proposed, brings another perspective, one directed to the nature of the social pursuit of knowledge.

I myself find it less fruitful, but others may not — what a sublime jolt of pleasure to acknowledge that someone has taken their time to answer my question. What else can become of that? Perhaps a friendship, perhaps a world of opportunities?

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SnooLobsters8922 t1_j2w8isq wrote

Replying to Lanky_Fella (#1,277,352)

Schindler’s list makes the holocaust be perceived as the worst thing that ever happened to humanity, but I question if that is really the case because we have had and still have pretty horrendous happenings. It’s the concept of ‘grievable lives’ — in our culture, some lives are more grievable than others.

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SnooLobsters8922 t1_j2w8ooy wrote

Replying to Callisto778 (#1,277,286)

Correct me if I’m wrong, but what’s the sense in comparing the world of today to the Middle Ages? Isn’t it like saying “hey, you got an F in algebra, but hey, in kindergarten all you did was scrape the test sheet with crayons”

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SnooLobsters8922 t1_j2w8w8m wrote

Replying to Varth_Dader1337 (#1,276,997)

I am sure that conversation and discussion brings value but if the user wanted to contribute he could have taken 1 sec and Google what is HDI and paste here saying “if someone else doesn’t know it, here’s what is HDI”

This is the type of info that doesn’t require a community to answer

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getdexed t1_j2wao89 wrote

Must be old data. Expenses in Germany are getting out of control. You can't effort a house as a single, when you don't get money from your parents. Even with a good job above average.

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erodari t1_j2wczqd wrote

Kind of surprised Taiwan didn't make the cut. I thought they were about the same level as Japan, Hong Kong, and Korea.

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sergiofalkone t1_j2wgu46 wrote

I wonder if UAE, SA and Qatar are counting the life of their citizens only as more than half of population are migrants being treated like slaves..

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Latter-Yam-2115 t1_j2wigfw wrote

KSA at >0.85 shows we need FAR better measures for Human Development :)

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tayt087x t1_j2wqcdy wrote

Replying to SnooLobsters8922 (#1,276,978)

It should be on the fucking map. If you're gonna call your data beautiful you should have some standards. Like explaining what you're talking about. That's why I've typed it in the past. Rhetorically.

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EclecticKant t1_j2wth5h wrote

Replying to Finnick-420 (#1,278,524)

The arithmetic mean is the sum of the numbers divided by the number of numbers The geometric mean is the n root of the product of the numbers. For example, if the numbers you want to find the mean of are: 1 10 11 99 The arithmetic mean is 30.25, while the geometric mean is 10.21. The geometric mean is more accurate when the value are a bit skewed (in the example 99 is an outlier, and it brings the arithmetic mean all the way up to 30, which is not very representative of the 4 numbers, the geometric one is more accurate), while the arithmetic mean is the better one when the data is more uniform and independent of each other (the geometric mean is almost always lower)

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PickleMan1212 t1_j2xlrz0 wrote

Replying to bukush (#1,279,955)

Africa sucks at controlling the HIV virus. Africa sucks at growing food. Only in Africa do millions of people starve to death frequently. But they got pyramids, gorillas, zebras, more treasures. And thank you African miners for my iPhone. Apple is insanely corrupt with a great PR firm!!

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bukush t1_j2yhnrb wrote

Replying to 40for60 (#1,280,907)

Just because some middle-manager or an influencer drives an EV , it doesnt take away the fact that basically the whole world runs on oil. And it is not going to dry up any time soon.

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bukush t1_j2yjz57 wrote

Replying to 40for60 (#1,281,509)

I know, the germans were all in years ago, i have worked with the transition and still i dont see it happening anytime soon. Any client buying these things are just basically beta-testers. None of the current ones are really produced to stay, they are cashing in on a new market with many new happy customers. I see it all as a money grab.

And both individuals and large companies mainly care about this because it gives them tax benefits.

Im not hating though, i see it become better by the day but oil is not going anywhere is my opinion. We will just have both in the end, think airlines and shipping vessels by sea. That is how we get everything these days.

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AzzamTora t1_j2yyhkm wrote

Replying to bukush (#1,277,306)

Health care isn’t free at all here for almost half of its population who are non citizens. Source: I was born and live here sucks to pay every time in return for a shitty health care.

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AzzamTora t1_j2z0ri9 wrote

Replying to mo_alanazii (#1,277,333)

Are you really flexing about the fact that Covid-19 vaccine was being given free of cost for citizens and foreigners in your country? Where else in the world did you see people struggle to get one let alone pay for the pandemic-saving WHO commissioned vaccine? I got bunch of Covid-19 vaccines back when i was in Turkey free of cost and easy online same hour appointment. But guess what, they don’t flex about how they give it out for free and how it’s easily booked for an appointment, only you guys love flexing all shit. Also you say “What does the west give to human rights” didn’t they gave the human world the same vaccine you happen to be flexing about it?

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zeefox79 t1_j2zwejy wrote

Replying to Due_Station9730 (#1,276,331)

Nothing to do with ancient history. The correlation is simply that they have similar Government systems

All of the top placed countries are social democracies that have strong social safety nets & health systems (which increase life expectancy), well-funded education systems, high degrees of economic freedom (which boosts total GDP) and highly progressive tax & payment systems (which reduce inequality and boost low and median incomes)

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mo_alanazii t1_j30u9bx wrote

Replying to AzzamTora (#1,282,373)

you got your vaccine dose in an hour, i got my vaccine in 5 min. Poor people in Africa are struggling to get their vaccine. The same thing in part of south America. We don't flexing anything. We welcome all the world in our country. Always remember you can argue with anyone but the more important "be polite"

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AntiMatter138 t1_j31bcnn wrote

Hong Kong is >0.95 while some of them are sleeping in 'coffin homes'

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