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Carbon dioxide posted:Kiiinda, but this graph does make you think about the fact that a larger population has a larger chance of having a good athlete than a smaller population. This does give large countries a statistical advantage, when you compare the absolute amounts of medals they got. Germany, France and Italy have higher populations than South Korea by about 10 million each, and UK is about even with all three. Australia and New Zealand combine to half the population of Italy. Yet those European countries (minus UK) only touch the leaderboard if they're combined, whereas the smaller nations are doing just fine individually. EU combines to a population 750 million, a little more than half that of China. When the EU is allowed 20 individual teams in the Olympics they pull down three times the medal count of China. The advantage for numerous teams far outweighs the advantage of larger populations.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Germany, France and Italy have higher populations than South Korea by about 10 million each, and UK is about even with all three. Australia and New Zealand combine to half the population of Italy. Yet those European countries (minus UK) only touch the leaderboard if they're combined, whereas the smaller nations are doing just fine individually. Partly because it lets one 'team' have like 50 people compete instead of the usual one or two per country. So that makes sense.
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Fathis Munk posted:And then you have India. [Activities] in a river of poo poo should have been their thing this year too.
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India's number 1 sport by a mile is cricket, which is not in the Olympics.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:EU combines to a population 750 million, a little more than half that of China. When the EU is allowed 20 individual teams in the Olympics they pull down three times the medal count of China. The advantage for numerous teams far outweighs the advantage of larger populations. EU is about 500 million, 750 million sound like all of Europe (= the continent) to me. Other than that, you have a point.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Belonged here, I thought: Brexit is going to be a huge success because we're good at the pommel horse.
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Does the entire U.S. count as part of the British Empire? Because I have a hard time believing that they’d go to the effort of sorting athletes by birthplace, or give up the U.S.’s huge medal stack.
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zakharov posted:India's number 1 sport by a mile is cricket, which is not in the Olympics. Yet 
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How does horse racing skew democratic, if only barely? And WWE? 
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Platystemon posted:How does horse racing skew democratic, if only barely? The explanation I've heard for WWE is that fandom/viewership is trending younger and more heavily Hispanic.
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Platystemon posted:How does horse racing skew democratic, if only barely? a LOT of hipsters started watching wrestling in the past few years
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zakharov posted:India's number 1 sport by a mile is cricket, which is not in the Olympics. If anything, it's India's number 2 sport that I would look out for.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Belonged here, I thought: Apparently the context is that someone else posted a similar medal tally but included the UK medals in the EU total .... which is still correct because Brexit hasn't kicked in quite yet, but people like Wheeler have apparently already moved on to the point where they get insulted by stuff like that
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Pakled posted:The explanation I've heard for WWE is that fandom/viewership is trending younger and more heavily Hispanic. Which is pretty much why Kalisto won the US Championship; the WWE have been desperately looking for a Mexican superstar to appeal to the Hispanic demographic ever since Rey Mysterio left the company. Kalisto… has very little appeal. But goddamn I do love the Salida del Sol.
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Pakled posted:The explanation I've heard for WWE is that fandom/viewership is trending younger and more heavily Hispanic. This would also be consistent with the low voter turnout index.
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Albino Squirrel posted:The NHL is more Republican than monster truck rallies? This has got to be pre‐Trump. The parking lots at his rallies are practically filled with monster trucks. These are the only possibly leftist monster truck fans I know of: 
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Platystemon posted:Trump Speaking of stats and graphs, I'd love to see a chart of the new politics-in-pyf probate/ban d6 die rolls
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Monster truck rally's might be skewed by suburban Dads bringing kids, but white suburban dads tend to skew strong right anyway so idk
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Split the difference between middle aged dad's and stoned 20 something gear heads and I'd expect youd get something in the middle that doesn't often vote.
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From the spaceflight thread:Pasco posted:
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Powered Descent posted:From the spaceflight thread: It's easy for me to forget just how big space really is, then I'll see a sunset and remember that I'm actually seeing the Sun as it was six months ago, it just took that long for the light to reach the Earth.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:It's easy for me to forget just how big space really is, then I'll see a sunset and remember that I'm actually seeing the Sun as it was eight minutes ago, it just took that long for the light to reach the Earth.
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gradenko_2000 posted:A "matrix" of leaders and personalities behind the Philippine drug trade: And at the top, Don Keter.
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Powered Descent posted:From the spaceflight thread: poo poo man, didn't know the sun had a diameter of like half a light year.
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Not really a graph but I think this belongs here:  It's a speed limit sign for Poland. I guess it's pretty logically laid out, but consider that you'll only get to see it once when driving through the border at a decent speed. In contrast, here's the German one: 
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Maybe it's because I'm not from Europe, but I see nothing logical about this at all for a sign you need to take in while having only seconds to register it. It took at least a minutes to figure out *most* of it. Some are guesses I'm pretty confident, some are guesses I'm not, and there's still a couple I have no loving clue. But this one I got immediately.
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The only one I’m not sure about is the blue car symbol. Is it roughly the equivalent of U.S. Routes? As in, not up to motorway/interstate standards, but better than a county road. e: Essentially, yes. quote:50 km/h (31 mph) in built-up areas during the day (from 5 till 23) Comparison of European road signs U.S. Army pamphlet, because they know this poo poo is confusing. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 14:35 on Aug 27, 2016 |
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Just drive very slightly slower than everyone else, unless it's a single lane, then go with the flow. Unless the local police are dicks.
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Platystemon posted:The only one I’m not sure about is the blue car symbol. Wow. That Austrian pedestrians only sign looks like sn abduction.
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flosofl posted:Maybe it's because I'm not from Europe, but I see nothing logical about this at all for a sign you need to take in while having only seconds to register it. It took at least a minutes to figure out *most* of it. Some are guesses I'm pretty confident, some are guesses I'm not, and there's still a couple I have no loving clue. The German one, on the other hand is perfectly clear of course. Although it has been simplified to basically only show passenger cars - trucks and buses also have different limits, but the assumption is probably that professional drivers can be expected to research this poo poo on their own.
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Felonious_Monk posted:And at the top, Don Keter. gently caress you for making this joke first. 
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