12-08-2015, 01:46 PM
(12-08-2015, 01:42 PM)Benton Wrote: Taking out armed conflicts makes that a very subjective list, especially as numbers from those countries can be skewed due to the violence. That's like making a chart on crime, but tossing out drug related stats because addiction is a disease.
I disagree. Eliminating armed, military conflicts makes it more objective. Armed conflicts would create outliers in the data that would further skew the results. From a statistical standpoint, eliminating those conflicts eliminates confounders in the data making the information more accurate with regards to the topic at hand.
