Re: OG Medal Points



Futbolmetrix wrote:
"anders t" <anthu_001@No?SPaM?_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Normalized by population (MP/M)


Why just normalize by population? I guess that you want some measure of how
each country performed relative to its "potential". But the potential to
succeed in the Winter Olympics is also a function of a country's wealth (as
measured by its GDP per capita), and by its distance from the equator (as
measured by the latitude of each country's capital city).

Hmm. Shouldn't you factor in average altitude as well as average distance from equator ? Some quite southerly countries actually do have wintery conditions (at least in part of their territory), like Spain. You can ski within sight of Africa in the Sierra Nevada.

Or perhaps just using average temperature in January might account for both average altitude and distance from equator.

Also average distance from equator of the capital city is a slightly distorting statistic (unduly benefitting the US and Britain). Would Canada's performance really be better if Toronto were capital instead of Ottawa ? It would be better to measure the mean distance from the equator of the place of residence of citizens, though I realise those numbers would be hard to come up with.

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