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R3lay0 t1_iu9ispd wrote

Reply to comment by MethodicalProgrammer in [OC] The average colour of each European country flag. by kate1hepuppy

I don't think that's the problem here, the tool they're using gives a different value

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zetimenvec t1_iuix5ar wrote

I think they categorized the colors into "red" "blue" "green" etc, regardless of shade and then counted the colors that appear, and then took them all as appearing an uniform amount, and calculated the average that way. A very quick and napkin-mathy approach.

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R3lay0 t1_iuje6t3 wrote

But the Switzerland, Denmark and Austria should have the same color

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zetimenvec t1_iujf4gb wrote

Hm. You're right.I guess they do take surface area into consideration. I'm not sure then. I was mostly basing that theory on the UK/France comparison, because I'm pretty sure the UK has less blue in it than France's, but they're like identical colors on this average map.

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