July 2, 2013
Ranking America
Via BetterPosters, a site devoted to graphics showing the US rank in international comparisons on a range of things. Some of the graphs are misleading because they look at totals rather than some per-capita quantity and so the US ranks high because it’s a big country.
Others …well, see for yourselves.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »